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School: Clochar

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Clogher, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
M. Ó Gealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095, Page 160

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    neighbours butter," and your neighbours won't like that.
    Many people won't let you take a coal of fire out of their houses.
    On leaving your neighbours house go out by the door you came in.
    It isn't right to bring a spade or shovel or other {implement/instrument} into a dwelling house on your shoulder. Tis no harm to bring in a bag of turf or a ciseán of potatoes in the like in this way. I suspect that this "regulation" was intended at the beginning to guard against the carelessness of children or their awkwardness - or on the principle of "safety first" to ensure that one thoughtless person following too closely on another may not run his face against the instrument and "disfigure
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Micheál Ó Gealbháin
    Gender
    Male