School: Ballymount (roll number 7303)
- Location:
- Ballymount, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Js. Humphreys
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My father told me that in the olden days a cure for the whooping cough was to put the child affected under the body of an ass and to give the ass a piece of bread. And whatever crumbs the ass would let fall. should be given to the (ass) child and then the child would recover.
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“When Captain Reeves lived at Rathsallagh in a place that is now owned by Pennefeather. He and his corps were going to the hill of Usk to have a fight...”
When Captain Reeves lived at Rathsallagh in a place that is now owned by Pennefeather. He and his corps were going to the hill of Usk to have a fight with the “Croppies” who were assembled at the “Pipers Stones”One of Capt Reeves men called “The Ancient Briton assaulted a man named Mr. Byrne of Uervil and cut his hand with a sword Capt Reeves marked him on the belt and said he would punish him when they got back to Rathsallagh(continues on next page)