School: Windgap, Thomastown (roll number 5698)
- Location:
- Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 091
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- To drink water from the opposite side of a vessel is a cure for hiccough.
It is said that if a person kneels down on a grave and chews some of the grass on it, it will cure a toothache.
If you rub a snail on a wart and then stick the snail on a skough bush the wart will wear away while the snail withers.
- Collector
- Margaret Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- There is a fort in Frankfort in Millea's field and it is said that two strong giants used sleep under two flat rocks years and years ago. There are often lights seen in this fort. it is also noticed that when cows are put in this field they will not go near the fort.
One time a few men were carrying a corpse across the hills from Nine-(continues on next page)
