School: Robertstown, Naas (roll number 15655)

Location:
Robertstown, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
P. Ó Harachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 241

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  3. XML “A Story”
  4. XML “Cures”
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    2. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sheila Fleming
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    10
  2. Anyone who never saw is or her father, can cure a sore mouth. He or she says three Hail Mary's and after each one blesses himself or herself. If you had a wart get a little bag and put a few small stones in it, and in three days the wart will be gone.
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  3. There is a little round house and a mouse would no fit in it. All the men in Kerry and Cork could not count it's windows.
    A thimble.
    As I went over London Bridget I met a brown house and in the brown house there was a white house.
    A Coconut.
    London, Derry, Cork, and Kerry spell me that, without a K.
    That.
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