School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí
- Location:
- Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Olivia
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- (continued from previous page)thing as diseases in cows and the people believed that that was the cause. Then they had plenty of milk and butter.
On May morning there is always a May bush put up and May flowers are thrown on the door-steps. It is said that if a person gets up May morning before the sun rises and washes his face in the dew that is on the grass he will never get any diseases on his face. This custom is also carried out to the present day. - Long ago people had many cures in which they believed. If you give a ferret milk and give what he leaves after him to a person that would have the whooping cough(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dolly Bowens
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrownaskeagh, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Mulvey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Bean fir oibre
- Address
- Strokestown, Co. Roscommon