School: Portlaoighse (Convent) (roll number 13386)
- Location:
- Port Laoise, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Sr Treasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0835, Page 007
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“A man named Hogan calls to our home every Christmas.”
(continued from previous page)Some people bring him in and give him some tea, and he gives them all the news of the West and everything that happened while he was there. He travels on foot and if he meets any old caravan they may give him a lift to another town.
All the people were disappointed when he didn't come to our town this Christmas but after, we heard that he was found dead on a roadside near Carlow.
- Long ago the old cure for a sty - get a thorn of a gooseberry bush and prod the sty three times saying. "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, Amen"
Long ago the old cure for a boil - Put soap and sugar on a brown paper and put it on the boil.
The old cure for a pimple was a fasting spit every morning for nine days - Collector
- Lucy Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Port Laoise, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Port Laoise, Co. Laois
