School: Carra
- Location:
- Carha, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Tonra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 490
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- (continued from previous page)they were not able to speak even if you spoke to them. England then sent corn-meal. But the people were so mad by hunger that they were not half boiling it and from that time forth stirabout and milk were the chief food of the people.
- I Prisoner
You would half on each side. Each side tried to catch the opposite side, and every one that was caught was a prisoner, and he had to stand in the middle with his hand out waiting to be released and the opposite side tried to release him. That went on until one side had all the opposite side taken That side then had the game won.
II The last pop down.
Round the green gravel,
The gravel grows green,
Many a lady was fit to be seen,
Washed in milk, dried in silk,
The last pop down.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Tony Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dooyeaghny or Cloonloughan, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs John Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dooyeaghny or Cloonloughan, Co. Mayo
