School: Gort Inse Guaire
- Location:
- Gort, Co. Galway
- Teacher: P. Ó hÉanacháin
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- (continued from previous page)a great feast for Cromwell and his army that lasted three days. All that time they talked about the boots. Then Cromwell left and never fired another shot on that part of Connacht
- Long ago there lived a man named Dan Cáit. He was put into Dublin prison for doing something very wrong.
He got nothing to eat but crusts of bread. He would be dead only for the crusts. Cé ná faighim an feoil is maith é an t-anbhruigh - There was a little boy in Seehan named Dan Cáit. The first day he went to school to Tierneevan. The master asked him where his book was. He thought it was muc the master said. He said he had no muc but a "bainbhín eile as na creachna."
- Boils; Sugar melted in soap.
Sore troaths; Put your stocking around your neck.
To stop blood from running; Put a cobweb(continues on next page)
