School: Breac-chluain
- Location:
- Brackloon South, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Mac Gabhann
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- (continued from previous page)away. During the month of December holly and ivy are used ot decorate the houses until the Christmas season is over.
- John Deacy was born in the year 1861 in the village of Coogue near Aughamore. When he was six years of age he went to school for about three months and then his father began to teach him to weave. He went to England when he was fourteen years old and he there joined the army, enlisting in "The Connaght Rangers".
From England he went to India and spent seven years there. He travelled India, China, Japan, Africa, Spain, America and England then he John Deacy died in 1937.(continues on next page)- Informant
- Thomas Forde
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Derrynacong, Co. Mayo