School: Duxtown, Rathkeale (roll number 15943)
- Location:
- Duckstown, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Agnes O' Grady
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- When farmers kill pigs for the use of the household, they wait for a new moon or kill with the growth of the moon, and never when the moon is on the wane.Meat of pigs killed with the growth of the moons swells "in the boil"(continues on next page)
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- Cáit Ní Fráthaile
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Duckstown, Co. Limerick