School: Fleasgach (roll number 15842)
- Location:
- Flaskagh More, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Maonaigh
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- Long ago there lived in this district an old man and woman who owned a shop. They went around the neighborhood every Friday with baskets of loaves and herrings. In exchange for these they would take eggs. On market days women packed baskets of eggs put them into shawls and carried them on their backs to the market. Hawkers come also collecting rags and horse hair.
- Collector
- Peg Dowd
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Flaskagh More, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Dowd
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Flaskagh More, Co. Galway
- Long ago the people lived mostly on the food grown on the land. They went out to work before their breakfast and after a couple of hours(continues on next page)