School: Croghan
- Location:
- Croghan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Módhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 171
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- (continued from previous page)of the groom will be first the groom will live the longer. The wives sat with their husbands on the horses.
- Long ago when the people had a toothache they held a coal to their jaw or to smoke a pipe was another great cure.
Whooping cough was cured by a ferrets leavings]. The old people said also to eat bread belonging to a husband and wife of the same name was also a cure for it.
There is a stone on Paddy O Haras field where St Patrick knelt hundreds of years ago and the water that(continues on next page) - Informant
- Cormac Meehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Carrowmore, Co. Roscommon
