School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Achadh an Iúir, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: E. Ó Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Maghara about three miles outside Virginia town. The man who has it is called Jimmy Lynch, locally know as "Jimmy the Bell".
But we do not know what Bishop it belonged to.
- The way to cure a burn is to get a cloth of clue clay. Heat it to the fire. Then put it to the the burn for two hours. Then get another cloth and bandage the burn tightly. In two days the burn will be better.
- A toy made in this district when birds are migratory is the catapult. The first thing to be done is to get a wooden fork. Then get two strips of rubber. Then tie the end of each rubber strip to a part of the fork with a piece of string. Then(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brian Matthews
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Achadh an Iúir, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Bernard Matthews
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Achadh an Iúir, Co. an Chabháin
