School: Cluainte (roll number 12404)
- Location:
- Cloontia, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Ní Riagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0117, Page 3
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- 26. Personal Nicknames are common in the locality they are descriptive of some personal quality e.g. a very tall thin man would be called Sling Phillips instead of John Phillips and the people are not sensitive at all about them.
Information from Miss W. Mac Donnell Cloontia, Ballaghaderreen.
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- 30A. Settlebed, during the day it looked like the article of furniture we call a sideboard but when "let down" during the night it was like a long wooden box without a lid with one side much higher than the other. When "turned up"(continues on next page)
