School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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“To cure bald patches on the head, take ivy leaves and stitch them together to form a cap.”
(continued from previous page)One of you (Miss Manning N.T. Loughrea)- Poll Gorm - The Black Hole, a pool on the river Maigue at the head of Glenma fox covert - which lies along the eastern bank of the Maigue - in Banogue parish (Martin Hartigan, Belleview, Croom)
- Informant
- Martin Hartigan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Belview, Co. Limerick
- A Rhyme from the Famine Days."Man or woman as you pass by,
Take a turnip if you are dry,
Take one, take two,
But if you take three, I'll take you"The above is supposed to be a notice, set up in turnip gardens, warning famine stricken wretches against taking more than two turnips.(From Tim Hedermann, who got it from old Cregan, dead some twenty years).- Informant
- Tim Hedermann
- Gender
- Male
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“It is not right that a girl or a woman should come into the house on New Year's Day to wish you a happy New Year.”
It is not right that a girl or a woman should come into the house on New Year's Day to wish you a happy New Year. Whatever they say, 'tisn't for your good they come.Mrs. Hayes, Dromloghan, Croom.- Informant
- Mrs Hayes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromloughan South, Co. Limerick