School: Pollréamoinn (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Pollremon, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Duibhghiolla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0014, Page 151
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- (continued from previous page)of them in a day.
In every village there was a weaver and he used to come around once a month to every house and if he would get thread to make a blanket he would bring it back when he would be coming around to the houses again. It would take the weaver about three days to make a blanket and he would charge three pounds to make a blanket and to have your own thread.
Written by Patrick Lyons Kildaree Williamstown, I got the information from my parents.
- The people used to play many games long ago and they all exist yet. Jack-stones is a very common game in this district and it is played by five round stones. It consists of twenty-four parts which are hands, couples, choice jack, round hand, trenches, down castles, bob suas, bob scatters, bob ones, bob twos, bob(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Lyons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kildaree, Co. Galway
