School: Fermoyle, Lanesboro (roll number 13321)
- Location:
- Formoyle (Newcomen), Co. Longford
- Teacher: S. Mac Eoin
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- (continued from previous page)townland of Lismacmanus got its name.
We have also a field called the "Plantation" During the Black-and-Tans about twenty years ago there was a fight in it. There was a man shot in Neddie Hanley's house just beside the Plantation. There was also a soldiers leg broken in Kitty Clarke's house.
There is also a place beside Lismacmanus called "Carnwell". It is a very wet, marshy place and there are a lot of wells in it.
Tim Moran of Lismacmanus has a field called the "Shrice". It got its name from being flooded the whole Winter. - There was an old fashioned cure recommended for Whooping Cough. The child's sponsor should bring a black ass to the child's house and put the child out under the ass three times. While this is being done someone should be feeding the ass with oat-meal. A cake should be made of the leaving of meal and some of it given to the child to eat.
If a person met a man riding a(continues on next page)- Collector
- Lily Killian
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Formoyle (Farrell), Co. Longford
- Informant
- Luke Killian Jr
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Formoyle (Farrell), Co. Longford