School: Gortlitreach (roll number 15960)
- Location:
- Gort Leitreach, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
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- (continued from previous page)a Brass ring is a cure for Rhumatism
- Long ago there was a local traveller called Stephen Deary he used to go from house to house looking for food and when he would get food in one house he would go to the other and eat more, and when it would get dark he would go to the nearest house to him and sleep in it that night
- Collector
- Mary Higgins
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- James Colreavy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- 1. Patches upon patches without any stitches, riddle me that and Ill you a pair of breeches, Ans head of cabbage
2. The half of a moon and the whole of a hill its a dear little spot in old Ireland still. Ans Mohill
3. I have a little house and it(continues on next page)