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 362
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- (continued from previous page)would have a cloving tongs and they each sitting down on a bag of hay and working like anything until six oclock. Then they would have potatoes , meat, cabbage and turnips which was their delight. Then when that would be over a crowd of boys and men would come in and they would be dancing until twelve oclock and that would be on every night for a week.
- There was a well in Cooraclare at the back of the church and a lot of the people of the village used to get water there including the priest himself who lived in the sacristy at the(continues on next page)
