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   “A somewhat similar tale is told of one of the Croker's of Ballinagarde.”

   

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   went after the maid, and when they both returned to the room, tho old man was not in the bed, he was dead under it.

   

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   “A child who is born after his father's death is able when grown to cure the chin-cough.”

   

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   A child who is born after his father's death is able, when grown up to cure the chin-cough (Whooping cough). All he has to do is breathe into the mouth of the person who has the cough. (Re? - C.C.)

   

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   “You should never turn the child's face to the wall, i.e. in a cradle or pram.”

   

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   You should never turn the child's face to the wall, i.e. in a cradle or pram (Because if the child took ill in any unusual way, i.e. if any bad or evil thing went by it, you wouldn't be able to know.

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   “One of the last of the Crokers in Ballinagarde, being a magistrate, had occasion in one of his magisterial settings to sentence one - Kiely to a month's imprisonment.”

   

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   This isn't folklore in the accepted sense,but it is in an implied manner: One of the last of the Crokers in Ballinagarde, being a magistrate, had occasion in one of his magisterial sittings to sentence one - Kiely to a month's imprisonment. Some time later, a good many years later, Kiely was in a public house in Grange (Near Lough Gur, and was in good humour. He evidently had been haymaking and was taking a drink or two or maybe three after his work. somebody announced by way of news

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