School: Cor Bealaigh
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 116
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- (continued from previous page)in a pit in the field. The turnips are brought home and left in a pit in the garden.
- Long ago when people were digging potatoes, threshing oats, wheat and barley, or doing any other thing they would gather a crowd of people called a meitheal and in this way it would never take very long to do their work. If there was a blacksmith or a tailor or any other tradesman in the place they go and work for him and he would pay them back some other way. They would go every year to the priest and work for him for nothing. They would never be late for fear the other people would be(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Celia Hallinan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockroe, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Doran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockroe, Co. Mayo
