School: Gleannach (Glenough) (roll number 8224)

Location:
Glenough Lower, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Bean Uí Bhreasail
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    Once upon a time a boy named Pat got a job of cutting turf for a farmer.

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    Only middling" said Pat, "I have been digging and searching for turf all the morning but I have found no dry turf yet."
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    Scoop the middle out of a turnip and put salt in it until it melts and rub it to the chilblains will cure them.

    Scoop the middle out of a turnip and put salt in it until it melts and rub to the chilblains will cure them.
    Warm a bottle with hot water and put the mouth of it to a boil to draw it.
    When you get a cut apply a cob web to stop the bleeding.
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    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    2. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. chilblains (~51)
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    We may live without poetry, music and art.

    We may live without poetry,
    music and art.
    We may live without consience, and live without heart.
    We may live without friends we may live without books
    But civilised man cannot live without cooks
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