School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0725, Page 113
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- If you get a yellow ragweed and cut it up real fine and get a bit of soap and fine sugar, mix them all together you will have the of of a stone bruise.
- A local fair is held in Clonmellon once a month the fair is held on the street. All big buyer's have raddles and they mark the cattle or sheep bought. Other men have a scissors and they cut a bit of the hair from them. When a man is buying a suck calf he usually gets a shilling for a luckpenny. If a cow or a year old beast is sold the buyer usually gets a half - crown for a luck penny.
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- Collector
- Tom Mac Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Seumas Mac Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
