School: Baile a' Mhuilinn (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Siobhán, Bean Uí Dholáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0041, Page 244
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- Winter PastimesDuring the long Winter nights all the men in my village go to a visiting house. The men have a lot of pastimes in Winter especially when they go to a visiting house. They play cards, and drafts, and chess. There is a visiting house in my village. The name of the owner of the house is Tommy Flynn. Every night there is a crowd of men at that house playing cards.Before Christmas every year those men play for turkeys, and geese, and chickens except this year. Fr. Blowick held a whistdrive at the Milltown Boys school to gather money in aid of the Parrochial Hall which is to be built in Milltown. Fist the tickets were played in a country house and all those that won them by cross-playing played again for a £5 prize at the school. A man named James Kirane of Dillonbrook that won the prize of £5. He is a man aged 78
years that won it. When the men would(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Egan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymary, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Martin Egan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Ballymary, Co. Galway
