School: Coralstown (roll number 1314)
- Location:
- Correllstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Beóláin
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- (continued from previous page)went to the rock and lifted it up. When he did so "Leave me back the way you got me" was written on it.
- About fifty years ago people used to dye clothes with mullen berries. They used to gather them off a creeper that grows in the bog. They would gather the full of a stone paperbag. Then they would half fill a pot with water and boil the berries in it. When they would be boiled they would strain the juice off the berries. Then they would dye the clothes in it. After the clothes were dyed they would bury the berries in a garden and they would do to dye clothes again.
- There is a fort on Harte's land. Fairies are supposed to be seen in it. It is said that the Reid's Grandfather was taken with the fairies. He was with them for a week and he thought(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Whyte
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Porterstown (Napper), Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- John Mc Cann
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Porterstown (Napper), Co. Westmeath