School: Carra
- Location:
- Carha, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Tonra
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 496
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Carra
- XML Page 496
- XML “Games”
- XML “Roads”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)Thread the needle, Sew and Sew. When we are playing this game we all go in one ring, and we join hands. The ones in the begining of the ring goes underneath the hands of the ones at the end of it and so they cross hands. While they are going round they all say Thread the needle Sew and Sew.
- RoadsThere was a road long ago running from Carra to Bonniconlon. It was running through Beckett's land and then to another old road leading to Bonniconlon which is now the principal one. The old name the people used to call it was Laogán road. This road was the principal one at that time. A great many people used to come from Tubbercurry with horses and carts to Enniscrone for wrack. They used to get it very hard coming up the big hill that is at Beckett's. The horses used to very strong. They wanted the wrack for the land. The roads were very bad and they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrownaglogh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Thomas Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrownaglogh, Co. Mayo
