School: Portlaoighse (Convent) (roll number 13386)
- Location:
- Port Laoise, Co. Laoise
- Teacher: Sr Treasa
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Splinter in a finger, rub bacon on the sore
To draw bruised blood or for a black eye place fresh lean meat on the part
The people in Donegal used to throw earth out of a garden on a person when he fainted
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- Collector
- Nancy Delany
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Port Laoise, Co. Laoise
- Informant
- Miss Phelan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Port Laoise, Co. Laoise