School: Tiobraid Árann (B.) (roll number 1285)
- Location:
- Tipperary, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Floinn
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“Years ago a peasant woman had a very handsome baby of two years.”
(continued from previous page)the other baby in the cradle.
The woman never knew that it happened to the day of her death.
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“A certain woman had a habit of going out to a moate and going to sleep on it.”
A certain woman had a habit of going out to a moate and going to sleep on it.
Her people could not stop her and they did not know what to do.
One day she got a blast and her legs became bigger than any man's. Special boots had to be made for her. They tried every old cure known but they were never successful. - Collector
- Dick Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tipperary, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr W. Allen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tipperary, Co. Tipperary
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“This is a old cure...”
This is an old cure that was worked on my father years ago. He broke his nose and all that was done was.