School: Ballyshannon, Kilcullen (roll number 15456)
- Location:
- Ballyshannon, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Margaret Dowling
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0780, Page 192
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- (continued from previous page)his finger with a razor. Mrs Bermingham of bastlefarm cures the yellowjaunders by means of herbs which are hailed and then taken in the form of a drink.
Mrs Dempsey of Burtown cures the minyera which is a sort of decline of gradually failing of health she also uses in the sort of a drink.
Collected by- Mary Dunne ,Tippernan Kilcullen , Co.Kildare
address and age - 14 years.
from whom obtained- from my father.
- A Hiden Treasure
People of the olden days hid money and valuable articles to protect them because the Cromwelians used to go about from house to house robbing rich people or the people who had valuable prizes in their possession.
It is said that when the Cromwellians were in Ireland in 1798 there was a monastery in Kilrush. When the Cromwellians came to Kildare they ran the nuns out and destroyed the sacred vessels. The nuns fled to Kilrush and there, they were massacred.
It is said that when the Cromwellians killed the nuns they threw the sacred vessels into a well near by.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Tippeenan Upper, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Mr Dunne
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tippeenan Upper, Co. Kildare
