Local Traditions - Historical and Otherwise

CBÉS 0506

Daithí Ó Ceanntabhail, Dick Butler, Edward O Connell, Joe Costelloe, Miss Finnerty, Miss Guare, Mrs Hederman, Pat Allen, William O Connell

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May Eve Customs

CBÉS 0507

Dick Butler, Mrs Culhane

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“They say that the most suitable place that the piseog doctor (the man who practises piseoga) could find to work his charms and practises is a double ditch that is a boundary, between two parishes.”

CBÉS 0507

Dick Butler

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“Once upon a time there was a man very sick, in fact he was dying and the doctor who used come to him every day said he had a lump in his stomach.”

CBÉS 0507

Dick Butler

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“There is a castle in Rosbrien (near Limerick city and I think tis what they call it is Crawford's castle.”

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Dick Butler

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“I think it was up in Belgreem I came across him.”

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Dick Butler

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“There is healing in the leaf of comfrey.”

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Dick Butler

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“The seventy acres was under wheat some years after the "big day".”

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Dick Butler

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“Adare fair is dead - and buried - so is Drumnun and nobody now-a-days ever hears of Ballingarry fair and I have it from my father that in his father's and grandfather's time, there used be a most famous horse-fair there.”

CBÉS 0507

Dick Butler

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