School: Dún Beag (C.)
- Location:
- Doonbeg, Co. Clare
- Teachers: Eibhlín Ní Shúilleabháin Bean an Ághasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0626, Page 355
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- (continued from previous page)17. If you fell anywhere you should turn back and make the sign of the cross on the place.
- Long ago it was the custom of the old people to keep the hens inside in the house by night. How they used manage them is they had a place made called a coop. A coop contained two sections in which the hens used sleep by night. There was a door in each section. The young hens used sleep in the upper one and the old ones in the lower section. There was also a stage over the kitchen door for the cock. In the(continues on next page)
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- Brighid Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh
- Gender
- Female
