School: Ceathrú na gCloch, Gleann Fraoigh (roll number 12806)
- Location:
- Carrownaglogh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bríd Bhreathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 553
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- (continued from previous page)He got into his boat, rowed out to them, where they were struggling in the whirl, and brought them safely to land.They paid him a good sum and called him their saviour and pilot and from that out he was called "Pilot".I married and settled in Glenree and I was never called by any name but "Pilot".
- About twenty years ago there was a great poteen-maker in Glenree called Joe Mullarkey or Joe "Jameson" as some called him.He was a carpenter by trade and could make anything from a still to a coffin.He brewed his poteen in Broca Dubh a lonely spot in the Sliabh Gamh mountains which form the eastern boundary of Glenree.He made it from brown sugar, yeast and treacle.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bríd Bhreathnach
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Bunnyconnellan, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Carberry
- Other names
- John Carberry
- Pilot (local name)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Glenree, Co. Mayo
