School: Aclint, Ardee (roll number 2138)

Location:
Aclint, Co. Louth
Teacher:
P. Ó Neill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 327

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 327

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    There is a cure for the warts in the water for cooling the iron.
    Another cure is to wash tender feet in the forge water
    Told by Mrs Clarke
    Edmondstown on 6th November 1938
    Written by Angela Clarke
    Edmonstown
    Ardee on the 8th Nov 1938
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Christmas customs
    The old people used to say that when the pudding would crack there would be a scatter in the family. When the pudding would break someone would die.
    When there would be frost before Christmas that, that would be a rank churchyard. The poor always swept a pass in the road and kept a candle lighted in the window thinking that the Virgin and Babe would visit them.
    In the country some of the people go to midnight Mass.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Christmas (~455)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Angela Clarke
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Edmondstown, Co. Louth
    Informant
    Mrs Clarke
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Edmondstown, Co. Louth