School: Gráig (2) (roll number 3402)
- Location:
- Graigueadrisly, Co. Laois
- Teacher: M. Ní Laighean
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0829, Page 101
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Gráig (2)
- XML Page 101
- XML “Local Heroes”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)morning they went to Mass. They then walked to the Tholsel because it was the custom for men seeking employment to go there. A gentleman farmer named Mr. Butler came and hired the eleven men to cut twenty five acres of wheat with sickles. Shaun travelled contentedly with the ten men to the farmer's house. They got their lodging in the barn that night and set out on Monday morning early to cut the corn. When they went to the headland none of the ten men would work with Shaun.
It was the custom for two men to reap one ridge of wheat. Mr. Butler said to Shaun :you must be a very bad man to say that none of your own men will work with you". "Well", said the farmers confidential man. "If you are anyway middling at all I will work with you". The confidential man started on the same rank as Shaun but neither of them was able to keep up with the others(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martha Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmeen South, Co. Laois
- Informant
- David Dalton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonmeen South, Co. Laois
