School: Mullach na Sídhe (C.) (roll number 15426)
- Location:
- Fairymount, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0239, Page 158
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- (continued from previous page)master sometimes the brought money if the had some to spare
Tessie Flynn
- Long ago when the people used to grow flax the had old forts to dry it in. There is one of them still known. It is in Berenard Egan's field clegernagh. There is a big hole in the field with trees all one side of it. There is another round hole with a ditch round it and a little hill in it. All the old people say it was for drying flax. They remember their fathers talking about it
- Collector
- Tessie Flynn
- Gender
- Female
- There is and old custom practiced when a mother dies.
When the corpse is gone out everything in the house is turned upside down so that the dead person wouldn't come in again. (It is said)
Another when the corpse is burried the children have to walk three times across(continues on next page) - Collector
- Rúth Ní Gardha
- Gender
- Female
