School: Drumloughan (Dromlachan) (roll number 15665)

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1. The Straws (continued)

   

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   The man immediately collapsed and they had to take him into the house and it was 3 days before he fully recovered. He never told who he was and all the information they got was that he came from Co. Longford. When Old Barney saw the state the man was in he didn't like the job of delivering 3 straws, so he gathered the whole family together, took his beads off a peg on the hob and offered up the rosary to save them from the "CHOLERA MORBIS." The poor man had travelled the whole way from Co Longford before he got a house there was no straw in.

   

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2. Easter Sunday Prochóg

   

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   Taken down from my father John Kilkenny who heard it from the old people. Very long ago they used to have great fun and diversion on Easter Sunday evening. All the lads and lassies, pipers, fiddlers and flute players used to gather together in an open field.

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   Topics

   1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
         1. Easter (~163)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   John Kilkenny

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   66

   Address

   Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim