School: Cathair Loisgreáin (B)
- Location:
- Cathair Loistreáin, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Pádhraic de Chlár
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“There was a man in Belclare one time and he was a shoemaker . . .”
There was a man in Belclare one time and he was a shoemaker. One day a man called to him and asked him to make a pair of boots. This he did and when the man asked him how much they were the shoemaker wrote something on a piece of paper and gave it to the man, who went away. Some years later the man came again and brought the shoemaker to the top of a hill and gave him as much land as he could see. This man (as per story) was Cromwell
- Get (I) 6 eggs
(II) 6 lemons
(III) 1 lb of brown sugar
(IIII) 1/2 pint of rum
Break the eggs and put into lemon juice shells included. Leave aside for 24 hours. Add rum and sugar and beat well. Put mixture into bottleTake a wine glass after meals - Informant
- Mrs Peter Coyne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Bheitheach Bheag, Co. na Gaillimhe
