School: Boulavogue
- Location:
- Buaile Mhaodhóg, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Énrí Tréinfhear
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- (continued from previous page)236Potatoes (continued)them into slices. Then she washes them. She takes that water off and put fresh water on them and leaves it on them for three days. Then she takes that water off and puts on fresh water, she leaves that water on them for three more days; after that she gets a cloth and strains off the water and the starch stays at the bottom of the can. The starch is made.Michael Burke,
Ballytreacy, Boolavogue, Ferns.
- ProverbsMarch will search, April will try and May will tell whether you'll live or die.
The person who eats the longest, will live the longest.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
An empty mind is the devil's work-shop.
Too much of one thing is good for nothing.Gerard Leacy,
Carrigeen, Ferns, Co Wexford.These proverbs were told to me by my mother
Mrs M. Leacy. (38 yrs)
[address as above] - Collector
- Gerard Leacy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Carraigín, Co. Loch Garman
- Informant
- Mrs M. Leacy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 38
- Address
- An Carraigín, Co. Loch Garman
