School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)
- Location:
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: D. Ó Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0864, Page 266
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- (continued from previous page)Get a dandelion and squeeze it until milk comes out of it and put it on the wart. After doing this for some time the wart will get better
- The name of Drapers will long be remembered in North Kilkenny in connection with the Coolbawn Ambush. One of the Drapers told the English forces in 'Comer that the Irish Republican Army were out in Coolbawn.
Draper came to this country as a planter. At first he was a kind of a stewart or bailiff. It was in the bad times after the famine when the(continues on next page) - Collector
- John Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- John Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Ballyragget, Co. Kilkenny
