School: Newtown, Fertullagh
- Location:
- Newtownlow, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: K. Shumacher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0732, Page 041
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There was a very bad thunderstorm in 1905. It was in the month of July and was, accompanied by a terrible fall of rain. People had to leave their houses and animals were carried out of their stables by the floods. People and cattle were killed in Kilbeggan. There was a heavy fall of snow in 1933. Bushes were covered and cattle, sheep as well as men and women were lost.
- The seventh son and daughter are able to cure tooth-ache, or a cure may be affected by rubbing a frog's foot on the tooth. If a person who has whooping-cough goes along the road, till he meets a man with a horse, and asks him for a cure, he will get better if he does as he is told. It is said that if the godfather of the child(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eirene Matthews
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynagore, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mrs Matthews
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynagore, Co. Westmeath
