School: Caológa (2) (roll number 16309)
- Location:
- Keeloges, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Laoghaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1073, Page 126
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- Just pull a hair out of your head and put it fair across your hand when the "maister" is going to give you a "pandy".Then his ould cane will break in two "shares".
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“A Dunfanaghy man took a friend with him to make a match. The bargaining went on in a kitchen where the light was not too good.”
A Dunfanaghy man took a friend with him to make a match. The bargaining went on in a kitchen where the light was not too good. The dowry was in Kind - "stirks" or young cattle _ and a certain number were agreed on and the young woman was seen and approved of - in the half light. But next day the young man demanded another "stirk" because the lass had "a feather" in her eye
