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School: Bullán (roll number 13432)

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Bullaun, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eoghan Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0059, Page 0045

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  1. Wells (continued)

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    some way and the well dried up. It is said that some person took water to cure cattle and the well dried up immediately. The water sprang up at a place 200 yards away and this spring can be seen at the present day. On a height in the same field about 200 yards away is a rath surrounded by two mounds.

    The other well Tubberadonagh is in the townland of Ballyeighter at the northern side of the parish. Of this well it is said that the water would not boil, no matter how long exposed to heat. A pattern was held there on the 10th July in a field called 'Pairc an Tobair' and the people called the day 'Lá na Spionáin'.

    Nora Moynihan
    Bullaun,
    Loughrea
    from Denis Deely, Ballymurry, Bullaun
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Seanfhocla

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    The following proverbs were got from the old people of Bullaun:-

    1) Ní féasta go rósta
    Ní céásta go posadh

    2) Teach ar árd, bhó bán, no bhean breágh ní bhíonn aon ráth leó.

    3) Bogha ceatha na maidne agus bogha gaoitha san tráthnóna.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Flannagan
    Gender
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    Address
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