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School: Mostrim (B.) (roll number 2083)

Location:
Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Richard Hyland
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0770, Page 235

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  1. Cure for a Wart

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    In old in times people used to rub a black snail to a wart and stick him on a thorn of a black thorn bush and if the snail is gone in the morning the wart is gone and if he is not gone the wart is not gone.
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  2. The Fort of Lisnagrish

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    It is said that gold cups and jugs were buried in it. Some years ago people were going to dig in it and a voice said to them "do not put a spade in this soil or bad luck will fall on you. The men stopped digging.
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  3. The Mill at Tinnynarr

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
      2. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    2. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peter Yorke
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Dr Yorke
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford