School: Cluain Fhada (roll number 15091)

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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   candles burned beside a corpse, if applied to the chest, are supposed to cure a cold. Long ago people used to put castor-oil on brown paper and put it on their chests to cure a cold.

   

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2. Travelling Folk

   

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   Travelling folk are still very numerous and when they come to the district they call to my home. They have been doing so for a good many years and the best known of them are generally welcome. These people are very poor and some of them travel barefooted, even in Winter some of them are to be seen in their

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
         1. travellers (~3,023)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Ellen Conolly

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Toomore, Co. Roscommon

   Informant

   Teresa Conolly

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Toomore, Co. Roscommon