School: Baile Uí Chróinín (roll number 10594)
- Location:
- Ballycroneen West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Chroitigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0394, Page 023
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“If a lot of daisies grow in a field of grass it is bad grass...”
If a lot of daisies grow in a field of grass it is bad grass. If a goat breathes on grass that grass is poisoned. There is a plant called the sore-eye. If you rubbed it to the eyelid of your eye your eye would get sore and you could not see with it. If a goat eats the skin of a tree that tree will fail. There is also a tree called the yew and if cattle eat it they are poisoned. If buchallans grow in grassy fields that grass is good.
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“There was a branch of Cahills in Aghada long ago and they were blacksmiths...”
There was a branch of Cahills in Aghada long ago and they were blacksmiths. There are some of their descendants there yet. They were called "Gabha na Bpílear" and they are called that since although the present people have a different occupation. In seventeen ninety-eight they made the pikes for the croppies. In eighteen-sixty-seven they made balls out of powder for the Fenians.
In Coolbay there lived a branch(continues on next page) - Collector
- Johanna Hegarty
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Johanna Hegarty
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Ballinvoher, Co. Cork