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School: Sraith (roll number 16623)

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Srah, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Séamus E. Ó Dubhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0197

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  1. Local Cures (continued)

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    March you wouldn't be sick for the year. Water flowing from a pump would cure a swollen foot. If you eat a certain kind of bread made by a woman that her name would not be changed when she would get married. The luck of the nine irons, is to stitch nine harrow pins in the ground if you had bad luck.
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    “Long ago the old people always had their lucky and unlucky days for doing work.”

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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Marie Porter
    Gender
    Female