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School: Barnaran, Rathangan (roll number 10454)

Location:
Barnaran, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Bean Uí Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0778, Page 196

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  1. Local Cures (continued)

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    2. Mrs Dason, Brooklawn, Rathangan, cures ring-worms wild-fire and burn. She gathers herbs and boils them with lard and makes it into ointment.
    3. Mrs Leeson of the Red Hills, Rathangan has a cure for everything
    4. Mrs Payne. Rathangan has a cure for burns.
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  2. Local Place Names

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    1. Tool's pasture in Barnaran Rathangan got it's name because there were people by the name of Tool's living in it.
    2. There is a village about four miles from Rathangan, Co. Kildare called Barnaran. The meaning of Barnaran is the gap between two divisions
    3. Harry's field Drimsree Rathangan got it's name because a [the] man by the name of Harry lived their.
    4. Gills field Lullymore Rathangan, got its name because a family named Gills lived in it.
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  3. Festival Customs

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    St Stephens Day
    On St Stephens Day boys get the oldest and most tattered clothes they can get. They make old hat of paper and tie straw round there legs and they go round to every house and sing
    The wren The wren
    The king of all birds
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Caitlín Breathnach
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Cappanargid, Co. Kildare