School: Allenwood

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   eye three times with the thorns. The old people use to mix the water off lime along with linseed, and this stuff is a cure for burns. They used to give people the milk out of a dandelion to cure consumption.

   Elsie Dunne, Allenwood North, Robertstown, Naas, Co. Kildare (from her mother)

   There is a place in Allenwood called "The beggar-mans-hill". It was called so because a man was coming with a load of flour and he fell off at that place and was killed, and it is ever since called the

   

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   “There is a place in Allenwood called "The beggar-man's hill".”

   

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   There is a place in Allenwood called "The beggar-mans-hill". It was called so because a man was coming with a load of flour and he fell off at that place and was killed, and it is ever since called the

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Thomas Regan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Fiodh Alúine, Co. Chill Dara