School: Gort an tSiúrdáin (roll number 14534)
- Location:
- Gortjordan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Módhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0106, Page 597
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- (continued from previous page)At all the wakes long ago the people would all smoke an old pipe. The people say that if a man came into a house and carried a spade or a shovel on his soulders shoulders that he would be sure to get married twice to a black haired girl. If a person to the house and the woman of the house was making a churn he would bring the butter with him if he did not
help the woman to make the churning.
- Long ago when my grandfather was a young man he worked very hard(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Sweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Illanmore, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Sweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Illanmore, Co. Mayo
