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“As I look up as I look down as I look on the deadly ground, I saw the Blessed Virgin coming towards me seven Mass books in her hand, seven priests singing, seven bells ringing.”

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Mrs Margaret Reilly, Pauline Reilly

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“Two men were going to the fair of Kells with a drove of sheep shortly after midnight.”

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John O Reilly, Pauline Reilly

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“Years ago during the penal days there was a very cruel landlord who lived in Westmeath.”

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John O Reilly, Pauline Reilly

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“There are many names on fields such as Larkens, the post field, the hall door field, the motor field, the big tree, the pump field, the sand pit field, and the cover.”

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John O Reilly, Pauline Reilly

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“The well of St Finbarr is situated near the village of Straffan.”

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Mary R. Deering, Patrick Tracey

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“Erysipelas is a swelling on the hands and face.”

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Mary Deering

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“The names of the fields on our farm are - The cows field...”

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Mary R. Deering, Patrick Tracey

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“The cures for a sty in your eye is to pluck ten gooseberry thorns. point one to the eye each morning for nine mornings throw away the tenth.”

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Brigid Duffy, Mrs C. Duffy

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An Old Cure for the Whooping-Cough

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Mrs Carney, Peg Wright

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“This is the cure of the whoopingcough.”

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Mrs Reilly

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“This girl, Nan Nolan, when suffering from Whooping Cough in 1937, was first put "under an ass" and "over an ass three times" father and mother holding the child and passing her from hand to hand under the animal.”

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Nan Nolan

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A Cure for Headaches

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Mrs Nolan, Nel Mac Cormack

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A Cure for Corns

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Mrs Nolan, Nel Mac Cormack

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The Big Wind

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Bridie Brady, Edward Waldron

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“About a mile from Maynooth we have a very ancient building called the Obelisk.”

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Bridie Brady, Edward Waldron

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Ghost Stories

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B. Reilly

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Composition

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Andrew Leetis, M. Lettis

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Composition

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M. Lettis

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“About a mile from Maynooth we have a very ancient building called the Obelisk.”

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Cures for Pip

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Mrs Mary Murphy, Paulien Smyth

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