School: Cor Bealaigh
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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- There are a hundred people in the townland. There is only one old man about eighty years who is excellent at telling stories and speaking Irish. His name is Patrick Fleming his wife is a good Irish speaker also.
- Collector
- Una Howley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dooyeaghny or Cloonloughan, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardvally, Co. Mayo
- HerbsPeople who have a week heart eat the boiled roots of the daisy as a cure.
Boil the young nettles like cabbage and they will act as a purifier for the blood. If you rub a copog on a nettle-sting it will take it away. Copogs grow near nettles.
There is nothing as good as pig-nuts for the stomach especially for indigestion.(continues on next page)