School: Gort na mBó (roll number 14418)
- Location:
- Bofield, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Laoghaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 28
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- (continued from previous page)ground, and leave a basket standing up to the stick. Then tie a rope to a stick, and go hiding yourself. Put some crumbs under the basket so that the blackbird will see them. When the blackbird comes under the basket to eat the crumbs, pull the rope, and the basket will fall on the blackbird. Then you have your blackbird caught.
- I live in the townland of Carracastle. Bofield is a part of Carracastle. Carracastle is in the parish(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Flannelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bofield, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Flannelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bofield, Co. Mayo
