School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)
- Location:
- Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 119
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- When a beast would die long ago the skin would be taken off and lined inside. Then they would bury it in the dung heap for nine days until the hair would fall off it. They would hang it up and use it as they required it. Thos. Hegarty Thos Brennan never saw this done but instead when an old ass died he was skinned and the skin buried in a bog hole until the skin would fall off. This skin was used for tying the of the flail for threshing oats.
- Informant
- Thomas Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 91
- Address
- Knockmascahill, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Hegarty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
- Biddy got this nickname because when she would want a lb a bacon she would say give me a pound of pig. She never wore a shoe and she rised to go to breggs for stuff across the fields. One day passing by a thorn hedge a big thorn went up in her heel. All the neighbours had a "go" at the thorn to try to get it out and they all failed.(continues on next page)
