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School: Gortermone

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Gortermone, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Mrs A. O' Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0229, Page 199

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    and at night it sounded so loud and long you scarcely got time to sleep. Music, music Swelled the air and cradled my youthful days. I still preserve an old green bag black with age & soot, as a momento of happy days in which I carried my fiddle under my arm for those music lessons I have already described.
    In the pages following I (the teacher) talk of baking mud turf. I am sure I may make a note about this as when I came to this district first & saw men making mud turf I had no idea what they were doing. The men & even women with donkeys tramp the mud. It's so peculiar to see them tramping away in bare feet on a small square of mud. Then they cut the worked mud into lines & shape the turf with their hands. Quite a beautiful sight of symmetry etc is to see those patches of turf baking under the sun. When properly baked & hardened they left them to foot, clamp, stack etc.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. nail-making (~117)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie O Reilly
    Gender
    Female