School: Baile an Daingin (C.) (roll number 4828)
- Location:
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire de Staic
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- (continued from previous page)If anyone stood on that spot he would go astray all night. but if he turned his coat inside out he would find his way out. After burying a young person the people used always cross the grave three times as they used to say it was the fairies that used take them.
- During the famine when the potato crop failed the people used to bring in
blisgeáns and wash them and eat them. In my neighbour hood at that time the people had nothing to eat but turnips which were selling in Prospect for a shilling a hundred. When the people used get them they used break them and mix oatmeal through them and boil them. At that time there was(continues on next page) - Collector
- Kathleen Hynes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lugalisheen South, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Hynes
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 57
- Address
- Lugalisheen South, Co. Mayo
