School: Camross, Mountrath
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifernáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0826, Page 418
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- The length of the handle is four feet and the length of the blade is three feet. It is only used for opening headlands. Long ago all work was done with the scythe. There are two small little handles on the scythe called handle- grips.
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“Long ago there were people who lived at the end of the lane...”
Long ago there were people who lived at the end of the land leading to Rosnacreena Wood, when a mule shod backwards went up the lane with a chest of money in the car. The white horse was on the potatoes that the people had down boiling when the mule was going up. The potatoes were only been taken up when the mule went back and no chest in the car. It was supposed to be hid inside Rosnacreena. - Collector
- Mícheál Ó Leathaig
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cardtown, Co. Laois
