School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0725, Page 008
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- Sir Plunkett O'Reilly was living in Ballinlough at the time. Cromwell sent an officer to him to ask him to give up the Castle. Sir Plunkett told the officer he would have to fight for it. Then he took a little table into the big hall and he put two swords on it. One was a new sword and the other was rusty. He put the new sword beside the officer and kept the rusty one for himself. The officer, seeing this, got afraid and ran off to Cromwell, who asked him did he not fight for the Castle. The soldier said he did not and Cromwell cut his head off and left the Castle to Sir Plunkett O'Reilly.
- Collector
- Seán Mac Craith
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- 1) Long ago the people used to put an iron in the fire while churning was going on.
2) They used never pass a horse-shoe on the road, but bring it home and hang it behind the door.
3) The floor was never swept out on Oidhche Bhealtaine.
4) A red string was tied around the neck of a child suffering from whooping-cough.
5) Cure for "Slíge" on the Eye:- Ten gooseberry thorns were obtained. Nine of these were pointed at the person's eye and the tenth was thrown away. This was repeated for nine days.
6) It was counted unlucky to pass a hare or a rat on one's way to a fair.(Fuair Michael Garry iad ó n-a mhathair i gCluain Mioláin
