School: Cor Bealaigh
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 117
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- (continued from previous page)talking about them and have them ashamed of themselves.
If there was a poor old widow in the district the neighbours would come and cut the oats, wheat and barley for her and dig her potatoes and threash her oats, wheat and barley for her.
Always when the day's work would be done they would get their supper in her house and they would get some whiskey after the supper. Then they would have a dance. They would have plenty of fun and merriment and then they would go home.
- The farmer ploughs the land in Winter time for the wheat and in March for the oats and barley. When he has it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margurite Barrins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Emlymoran, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr John Foody
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Emlymoran, Co. Sligo
