School: Páirc na nDriseóg (roll number 14294)
- Location:
- Brierfield, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Conaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0083, Page 179
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- (continued from previous page)Boxty. It would be like a stone to eat it. It was a custom long to throw a stone in "a leach". That is a big heap of stones and when the people used to be passing by a "leach" especially when they would be passing by it when the would be going to a funeral. There is a leach below outside Kilerrin chapel and long ago they used to throw a stone in it. When they would come home they would say "Caith mé cloch ar on leach". There is another leach beyond in Bernard Dolan's field of Brierfield South. There was a man hung in that place. He was hung for shooting another man from Moyloughbeg named Brown. There was a Landlord in Brierfield named Joyce and he was very cruel. So the people had made up to shoot when they would see him coming home. So one day he went to Tuam in a white horse and carriage and Brown went to Tuam also.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Chrissie Finn
- Address
- Brierfield South, Co. Galway
- Informant
- James Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brierfield South, Co. Galway
