School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)
- Location:
- Tirnamona, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Blackburn
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- snail. if you rub a snail on a wart and then put it on a goose berry bush. It will disapper.wartstone. There is a wartstone in Clenamully, Parish of Tydavnet for curing warts. You have to stick a pin in the wartstone, and then stick it in the wart three times, and say. "God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Then the wart will go away.pea-pod. Rub a pea-pod on a wart. Roll the peapod in a piece of paper. Throw it on the road. When somebody lifts it, the wart will go away.Chickenweed. take the juice out of it, and rub it on the wart, and then it will go away.Funeral. If you stand on a hill, while a funeral passes by, and watch it and say, "Let the warts go with you," the warts will go away.Bacon. If you would steal a little piece of bacon, and rub your wart with it, and then bury it. The wart will go away.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- George Lambe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullyera, Co. Monaghan
- Collector
- Lily Mc Clean
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tattindonagh, Co. Monaghan
- Collector
- Mary Mc Clean
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Tullaghan, Co. Monaghan
- Collector
- Maud Mc Clean
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Mullyera, Co. Monaghan
- Collector
- Wallace Graham
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Graffagh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Jeremiah Mc Clean
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Mullyera, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- J. Wallace
- Gender
- Unknown
- Age
- 52
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Mullyera, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs J. Graham
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 53
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Graffagh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cooldarragh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Richard Mc Clean
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Tullaghan, Co. Monaghan