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School: Scoil N. Comáin, Hollymount

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Hollymount Demesne, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Donncha Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0105, Page 249

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  4. XML “Dances”
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  1. Milk (continued)

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    went up in the cow's "Ladhar" (slit in hoof) when the cow was going out a gap. If she happened to take some of this dirt from any cow's track, the women would be able to steal the milk from the cow, that she stole the laitheach and ladair from.
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  2. Dances

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    2. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Donnchadh Ó Riain
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Múinteoir
    Address
    Rahard, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    John Merrick
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    85
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Hollymount Demesne, Co. Mayo

  3. Food

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    The main food when I was a boy was potatoes. they were boiled in a pot. then they were thrown out on a skib to strain them. The old people held there was great virtue in the potato-water for washing your feet in if you had a cold.
    we had no knives to peel the potatoes we took the skin off with our fingers. we drank milk, usually butter milk
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