School: Bennettschurch, Baile Mhic Cairbre
- Location:
- Graignagower, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Uí Dhíomasaigh
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- (continued from previous page)which I could not get the names are used in medicine for cattle.
The people use ivy leaves to clean clothes. They also use log wood and copperas to clean clothes. The ewe tree and the rohdodendrom at certain seasons of the year are poisonous. - There is the ruin of an old castle ain Cloughclooney. The castle it situated about three miles from the halfway-house. It is in the village of Cloughclooney, facing south, quite close to a bye road. A family of the Prendergasts lived in it. It is there two or three hundred years. When the family left, it went to rack and farmers removed stones from it.
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- Bean Uí Riain
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Ballymacarbry, Co. Waterford