Old Place Names

“There is (a field) hill in Gurtderrybeg by the name of "Parr's Hill"...”

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Lena Maher, Mrs Maher

An tSeanchill, Co. Thiobraid Árann

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Old Place Names

“There is a field in Mrs. Treacy's land in Templemore called the "Master's Meadow...”

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Maureen Marnell, Mr Marnell

An tSeanchill, Co. Thiobraid Árann

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Bird-Lore

“The swallow is a slate-coloured brid with blue feathers near her tail...”

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Maureen Marnell, Mr Marnell

An tSeanchill, Co. Thiobraid Árann

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Bird-Lore

“The Swallow, the robin, the blackbird, the thrush and the sparrow...”

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Mr Fanning, Nicholas Fanning

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Bird-Lore

“The Swallow, the robin, the blackbird, the thrush and the sparrow...”

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Mr Fanning, Nicholas Fanning

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Bird-Lore

“Robins, Wrens, Yellow-hammers, Crows, Seagulls, Magpies, Willy-wagtails, Thrushes, Blackbird, Curlew, Cranes, Bats, Swallows, Daws and larks...”

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Bridie Maher, Dan Treacy

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Bird-Lore

“The starlings come in flocks in Winter and lodge in fields, and chatter together for a few minutes...”

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Neddie Maher, William Maher

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Bird-Lore

“There are alot of birds around this district...”

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Daniel Quinlan, Mr Quinlan, Mrs Quinlan

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Bird-Lore

“When the swallows are flying low and tipping the water and grass it is a sign of wet weather...”

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Dan Clarke, Mr Clarke

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Local Cures

“People say that if (you) a calf had a pain to cut the worms knot three times over him and it would cure him, but if the twine knotted he would die...”

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Dan Clarke, Mr Clarke

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Local Cures

“Miss Elizabeth Prendergast of Clonmore in the townland of Templemore, has a cure for tetters and ringworms...”

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Edward Maher, William Maher

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Local Cures

“The old people used to cure warts this way. When the meat would be cooking for the dinner...”

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Lena Maher, Mrs Maher

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Local Cures

“The cure is to get a snail and rub it to a wart, and then to make the Sign of the Cross on the wart with the snail and then stick the snail on a thorn again...”

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Daniel Quinlan, Mr Quinlan

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Local Cures

“Bees wax and honey would cure the "thrush"...”

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Mary Maher, Mr Maher

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Local Cures

“Common sugar ground fine and put on a child's tongue would cure the thrush...”

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Maureen Marnell, Mr Marnell

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Local Cures

“To cure the whooping-cough is, to bring a grey donkey on the floor. and to give him bread to eat and whatever bread the donkey would let fall out of his mouth the person with the whooping-cough was to eat it...”

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Bridie Maher, Mr Maher

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Local Cures

“I know a cure for tetters is to get a lump of washing soda and a lump of soap and melt them together and let it boil and then put it on as hot as you can...”

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John Maher, Thomas Cantwell

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Local Cures

“A cure for a toothache in olden times was to go to a grave-yard and rise up an old man's head and pull out a tooth...”

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Dan Maher, Mr Maher

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Homemade Toys

“The people in olden times used to make toys themselves...”

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Dan Clarke, Mr Clarke

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Homemade Toys

“I am able to make a gun for squarting water with an alder and it is empty inside and you would get a sally rod and put a rag on the top of it...”

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Dan Maher, Mr Maher

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