School: Walterstown (roll number 10356)

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1. Cures (continued)

   

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   and pour the juice down with a spoon and it will cure them.

   White Turnip

   Peel and slice a white turnip. Put the slices down on a plate and shake sugar over them. Cover them with another plate and leave for twenty four hours. A syrup will be formed by that time. This is taken for a cough or a cold. A spoonful or two may be taken at a time. (7-6-1938)

   Written by
   Bernadette Kelly
   Walterstown
   Garlow Cross
   Navan

   Given by Mrs Powderly (farmer's wife)
   Deerpark
   Garlow Cross
   Navan

   

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2. Burial Custom

   

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   Burial Custom About thirty or forty years ago, the remains of a dead person were brought on the shoulders of the people from the home to the graveyard. When the people, who were carrying the corpse, got tired they wailed for help. This was called the bean-sidhe-wail. Those within hearing distance of the wail, were supposed to drop whatever they were at and go at once to help and carry the corpse. If people left the district where their own burying-ground was, even if they were as far away as Waterford, their remains were brought back to the family burying-ground in this manner.

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3. Custom - Sunday Classes

   

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   Custom - Sunday Classes

   Men of the parish taught the Cathechism on Sundays to the children who had finished school. They taught for an hour and a half each Sunday.

   Written by
   Mrs Kelly N.T.
   Walterstown N. School

   Given by
   Tom Clusker (road worker)
   Brownstown
   53 years

   This man is a native of Kentstown. His father died lately at the age of 101 years.

   

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