School: Kilglass (roll number 15571)
- Location:
- Kilglass, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0164, Page 196
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- About 100 years ago, on fair days certain families used to come together and fight certain other families , and these were called "Faction Fights"The principal weapons were blackthorn sticks, and they fought to a finish as the following anecdote shows: During a lull in the fight a man came across another lying stretched , and he could not know whether he was dead or alive , so he said' Bhfuil tú be?o ' and the other man said ' Ar éigin' , upon which he gave him a blow to finish him!
- Collector
- Mary Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- John Kilcullen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
