School: Eaglais
- Location:
- Burren, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: S. Ó Mongaigh
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- A year or two after the famine the Government started making roads in Ireland, and starting little jobs to keep the people from starving.
Instead of money sometimes it was a quart of meal they used to give the men every day as pay.
There is a road going to Burrenmore called Bóthar na Mine because it was meal they used to give the men for their day's wages. That is how the road got its name. - We have got a stone from St. Patrick's bed in the house. It came from Croagh Patrick. It is a small round stone. It was taken from the place where St. patrick laid his head. The people say there is a cure in it. If you rub it on a sore it will cure it.
- Collector
- Nora Forde
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Burren, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Tom Forde
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48