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)too, they take a poultice of herbs and leave it outside until morning and apply it before sunrise. The cure for a toothache was to go to the nearest graveyard and get the tooth out of a skull and rub it on the tooth three times.
- In olden times people thought it unlucky to get married in May. They also believed it unlucky to get married on a Friday or on a Saturday. Wednesday was supposed to be very lucky. The bride very often wore something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.
Stock and corn were often given as fortunes, because in those days people(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen Shaughnessy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corboghil, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mary Shaughnessy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 46
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Corboghil, Co. Roscommon