School: Ballyburke (roll number 5125)
- Location:
- Béal Átha Búrc, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cheallaigh
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- Once upon [?] a time there lived a cleeve maker. His name was Tom Gibbons. He lived in Iselandeady. He made creels. He had a sgraw (a sod of earth with grass growing out of it) placed in a little corner of the garden. He got rods and put a line of them on the sgraw. Then he wove little thin slender rods threw the large rods. When he had nine or ten pairs of creels made he would take an ass cart of creels to the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tony Neary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Béal Átha hÉin, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- Tom Neary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Béal Átha hÉin, Co. Mhaigh Eo
