School: Baile an Daingin (B) (roll number 1676)
- Location:
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus P. Ó Gríobhtha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0096, Page 821
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- (continued from previous page)Shall live to fight and other day,
Spare while you have plenty,
It is a fowl wind if it does not favour somebody.
Every hen that died, died in debt,
Very near is never done,
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- A great many tailors used to go around from house to house making clothes. The people used to wear frieze suits. Those suits used to last thirty or forty years. They used to wear linen shirts. They used to grow the flax and weave the linen themselves. The tailors used to stay three or four days in every house.
Martin Conroy used to go around tailoring. He learned his trade from tailor Moloney. He does(continues on next page) - Collector
- Louis Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Branraduff, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Branraduff, Co. Mayo
