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From the same source I get Paurcacroohe as the name of a field near the graveyard of Dunaman, which church was once known or referred to in Geraldine Records as Villa Frostany.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant James Kavanagh.

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Bonn-leac = bownlock and boinn leac = binelock, that is, a hardening of the skin ...

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).

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Bogadh Glugair, Biolar Glugair. From another source I get the name Bod a' Glugair for the plant referred to on these pages.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant James Kavanagh.

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There is healing in the leaf of comfrey.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant Dick Butler.

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There was a man from the Ballycahan side coming home from Limerick one night.

Story collected by Joseph O Farrell, a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant an unidentified informant.

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When I was a young fellow my mother would make me go out for a gad of quicken tree before sunrise on May morning.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant Mr Mc Gowan.

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Com-ach-a-fay = Hartslongue fern, a spore-bearing plant, plentiful in moist damp stony places, used, when boiled to a jelly in conjunction with the inner bark of young elder, and mixed with (fresh) hog's lard, as a cure for burns.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant Micheál O Domhnaill.

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Cuckle-Root = great burdock

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).

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That field is known as the orchard.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).

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Brackaun = ? Breacán, the name by which the long, narrow, paddle-oared boat used by the fishermen on the Abbey River in Limerick city is known.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).

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They say that if you make a garter of eel-skin and wear it that it will banish cramp from the leg.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant Denis Lyons.

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Gilligín Gabhair = (? Gligín Geamhair) = Cuckoo-pint or Wild Arum = also locally "Weasel-poison" and I think it was to the scarlet berries of this plant that in my native place (Tiob. Ár) was applied the name "Whitten berries".

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).

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Here is a new version given to me of how Drom Asail was formes.

Story collected by Seoirse O Grádaigh, a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).

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Láithreachán = a smooth level place, a threshing floor.

Story collected by Gearoid O h Aodha, a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant an unidentified informant.

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Cures

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).

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The Wild arum referred to on page 37 as Gilgín Gabhuir etc. is also known locally here as "Purple Pencil£ and "Fairy Pencil".

Story collected by John Hogan, a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from 2 informants.

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To cure bald patches on the head, take ivy leaves and stitch them together to form a cap.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant Miss Manning.

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Slánlus grows in meadows ...

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant J. English.

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To cure St. Anthony's fire - a variety of skin trouble...

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).

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A cure for bald patches on the head is to make a cap of ivy-leaves by stitching them together (in cap formation) and wearing them.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant Miss Manning.

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Old Cures

Story collected by Kathleen Douglas, a student at Cromadh (C.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from 2 informants.

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Last night at 10 0 clock ("old time"), the sky-line from the southwest to northwest was wonderfully beautiful and bright, in bands of colour, scarlet, deep rose, pink, white and darkening into light green and sea-blue.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).

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Somewhere near the "Well" (St. Patrick's Well Co. Limerick) there was a family of Palatines named Corneille.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) from informant Ed O Connell.

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In a field to the south-east of the high fort of Bohernageela there are two mounds which are said to be graves.

Story collected by a student at Cromadh (B.) school (Croom, Co. Limerick) (no informant identified).

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