School: Cluain Laighean (B.)
- Location:
- Cloonlyon, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0116, Page 259
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“The old people say that if anyone comes in while the churning is being made, they should say God bless the work or take the dash, or churn a while...”
(continued from previous page)to keep away the spirits. Whatever door a person enters he has to go out the same door.
- Once upon a time there was a girl living with her father and mother in a house. One day when her father and mother were gone to town her boyfriend came to the house. There was a silly (do) boy living in another house in the pig went hoking at the potatoes. He took a flag and killed the pig. Then he came to the house where the girl was living and sat in the corner. The girl had an oat-meal cake(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dominick Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Kilgarriff West, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Micheal Kelly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Kilgarriff West, Co. Mayo
