School: Barnaran, Rathangan (roll number 10454)
- Location:
- Barnaran, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Bean Uí Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0778, Page 188
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- (continued from previous page)stayed all night and more times they used only stay an hour or two.2) When the married couple would be going away from the church it was a custom to throw an old shoe after the car.3) It was also a custom to throw rice on the married pair for luck.
- The Great Wind was in Eighteen Hundred and Ninety Nina. It started at six o'clock and stopped at nine. There were signs of it coming because it was a windy day and raining. The storm did a lot of damage. Roads were blocked and houses were stripped. Ricks of hay and straw were blown away. There were a lot of cattle and sheep killed.
- Collector
- Peadar Mac Giolla Phádruig
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Lullymore East, Co. Kildare
- There is an old rath in Carbury, Co Kildare. There is a big ditch, and a circle of bushes all around it. There is(continues on next page)
