School: Johnstown (roll number 877)
- Location:
- Johnstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Miss H.C. Hickie
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0687, Page 150
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Johnstown
- XML Page 150
- XML “The Oak for a Soak”
- XML “Teeth Extraction”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- "The oak for a soak".
The ash for a dash
If the oak buds before the ash it is taken as a sign that the season will be good.If the ash buds first the weather will be bad.
- Informant
- Mrs Fitzpatrick
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Kilcarn, Co. Meath
- The following crude way of extracting teeth was practised in this locality some years ago.The patient went to the local blacksmith who tied the offending member to the anvil with strong twine.Then he reddened a piece of iron and put it on the anvil in close proximity to the patient's face.He gave such a jump (?) back from it that the tooth was pulled clean out of his head.Mrs Fitzpatrick says that she knew people who got painful teeth extracted in this way and there were never to her knowledge any ill effects.
