School: Teampall Mhuire

Location:: Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
Teacher:: Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille

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The Harrows of Old

They used the same harrows as we use nowadays. They tied up a little bundle of straw with strings and made a collar. They used wooden hams, and reins made of suggans. They used halters instead of bridles, and rope traces.

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Collector: Margaret Lynn
Gender: female
Address: Cartoon, Co. Mayo

Informant: Mrs Lynn
Relation: unknown
Gender: female
Address: Cartoon, Co. Mayo

Language: English

The Lacken Drowning

On the 28th October 1928 there were nine men drowned in Lacken Bay. The night was fine and the men went out fishing and when they were a mile out the wind arose. At first they thought it was a 'fairy breeze'. At length they wondered why it did not cease so they

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