School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)
- Location:
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 291
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- (continued from previous page)fields and they used to boil and drink it.
A cure they had for rheumatism was to boil paraffin-oil and water and rub it to the limbs.
An old custom was to hang up a small piece of bacon on a salley rod on the inside of the house on Shrove Tuesday and to eat it on Easter Sunday morning. It is said that who ever would eat it they would not get a disease for that year.
Another old custom is that he would eat three meals of nettles in the month of March would not get any sickness for the year.
- When children have nothing to do, they delight in making toys.
A necklace can be made from daisies, put a hole in the stem of a daisy, and put the stem of another daisy into that hole and so on until the necklace is big enough. A boat can be made from paper. Fold(continues on next page) - Collector
- Rita Cahill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
