School: Castlegrove (roll number 15475)
- Location:
- Castlegrove East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0053
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- (continued from previous page)"In darkness" Why does a cow go over the wall "Because she cannot go under it."
How many wells can make a river "No number." A Stem with a hundred coats on it. "A head of cabbage."
As I was walking through a wheat field I met a thing that was good to eat. It was neither bone nor fish flesh not meat and it could walk. "An egg"
- Cures
Whooping cough. If you met a man with a white horse and ask him for a cure, and whatever he says will cure the person.
Measles. To stay in bed nine days.
Chicken cough. To stay in bed five days.
Consumption. Fresh air and sun-shine.
Rheumatism. To carry a raw potato in your shirt pocket.
Yellow-yandes. To go out to the well and take in a bucket of water. Then get a pint mug and fill it with water and put a tea-spoon bread soda into it. Take a few spoons of it every four hours. - Collector
- Maggie Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyroe, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Paddy Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Ballyroe, Co. Galway
- Blessed Wells
There is a blessed well in Killannon.(continues on next page)
