School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)
- Location:
- Gort na dTíobh Thiar, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teachers: Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 136
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- (continued from previous page)Once came to court my father's grey mare."
It was not the grey more I came for but a charming young lassy called Sally by name.
- I have a shop and I have only four weights and I can weigh up to forty stone with the four weight. What are the four weights?
27 st 9 st 3 st 1 st - Myself and a neighbouring farmer once had a meitheal each cutting oats and when we had finished in the evening we said we would send for drink for the workers. Eight gallons of porter was brought and it had to be divided between the two of us. We had only a five gallon measure and a three gallon measure. How did we divide it between the two of us?(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 91
- Address
- Cnoc Mhic Scaithil, Co. na Gaillimhe
