School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)
- Location:
- Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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- XML “Shoe Polish”
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- (continued from previous page)was boiled, and boiled well. The tea leaves were then eaten and the water thrown away.
- Long ago the cow and the ass were tied within in the house. The ducks under and dresser, and the cock and hens on the loft. My father said that in those days people were far healthier and lived much longer than they do now.
- Ordinary people drank from the noggin and the rich drank from Methes.
- Scrape the black off the pot or the kettle put a little water through it and rub it on the shoes. Others say get a wisp of straw and blacken it in the fire then rub it on the shoes.
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