School: Kilmacteige (B.) (roll number 15500)
- Location:
- Kilmacteige, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Cuirnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0173, Page 218
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- (continued from previous page)when that person was buried the coffin was taken home for the next person who would die.
- There is a story in Carroweagh about wild cats going in to a certain house. The woman of the house was so frightened that she put all the milk and cream she had in the house into a dish and left it on the floor All the cats gathered round drinking and when they had the tub empty they all looked at her and on going out each bowed his head in gratitude
- Collector
- Michael James Neary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowreagh, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Thomas Hurley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Carrowreagh, Co. Sligo
