School: Aclint, Ardee (roll number 2138)
- Location:
- Aclint, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Neill
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- (continued from previous page)There is a cure for the warts in the water for cooling the iron.
Another cure is to wash tender feet in the forge waterTold by Mrs Clarke
Edmondstown on 6th November 1938
Written by Angela Clarke
Edmonstown
Ardee on the 8th Nov 1938 - 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)- Collector
- Angela Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edmondstown, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edmondstown, Co. Louth