School: Ballyjamesduff (B.)
- Location:
- Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. O' Donovan
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- (continued from previous page)This man gets some certain kind of herbs, and boils the roots of them in water, when they are boiled he drains the water from them, and puts it into a bottle, and keeps it for curing this disease.
- There are many different sorts of wild birds around this district of Claudia namely, the crow, pigeon, thrush blackbird, the robin, and the magpie.
The people around this district say, that if a magpie flies across the road, it is very unlucky. The thrush, blackbird, and robin, mostly build their nests in hedges, or in clumps of briars. Those birds stay with us the whole year(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bernard Gaffney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Claddagh, Co. Cavan