School: Tappa (roll number 10451)
- Location:
- Tetoppa, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Reachtaire
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- Marriages
When girls are getting married they used ride on horseback with their husbands and when they get married they get presents from their neighbours such as a bottle of whisky and wedding cakes.
- Cures
There are many cures for anything. There are cures for warts. When anyone has warts they bleed them with a thorn and then throw it away and no more warts will come. A Sty
When there is a sty on anyones eye they pick nine thorns of a goodberry bush and let a brother or a sister gag it and then throw one away and keep eight for luck and no more stys will come back again.
