School: Gort an tSiúrdáin (roll number 14534)
- Location:
- Gortjordan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Módhráin
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- (continued from previous page)Their policy was destruction not construction. Those towers are known as "clog teach" or the "house of the bell". They were built near churches to add to their beauty and to serve as watch towers and places of security in which the sacred vessels were kept during the time of war. There was an opening in the ground floor. There are eighty of these in Ireland still, twenty of them perfect.
An Old Song
“There was once an old Kilmolara cow”
There was once an old Kilmolara cow
She ate and she drank all before her
She ate a harrow and and a plough
She at a cock of straw on Tom Browne
And a cock of hay half way down.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Michael Sweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Turloughanbaun, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Turloughanbaun, Co. Mayo