School: Newtownanner, Cluain Meala (roll number 1559)
- Location:
- Newtownanner Demesne, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Corcoráin
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“In the Summer I make necklets with daisies and I make belts also...”
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hold in the stem of one daisy and I put the stem of another one in the hole and I continue doing that until I come to the middle. Then I put a small buttercup and next a bigger one and a small one again. I continue with the daisies until I have it made. I do not put fastners in it but I make it big enough so to go over my head. I make a doll out of rags. I paint her eyes blue and I paint her cheeks red. I make a bed with a box by putting the end of the box in the top of the cover of it. I wall-paper the bed inside and outside. I make clothes for it with pieces of cloth that my mother would have left over after making clothes. I get spools and put them under the bed for wheels so that I could move it around.
- Maris Doyle Davis Road Clonmel
My mother Mrs Doyle told me these old cures.
To use the water that the Black-smith cooled his irons in is supposed to be a sure for warts. A cure for measles is to meet a man with a white horse and ask him about it whatever he says will cure it. There is(continues on next page) - Collector
- Maris Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
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- Mrs Doyle
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- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
