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School: Barrlinn

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Inchinarihen, Co. Cork
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Máire Ní Chruadhlaoich
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0282, Page 043

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    The above is an example of a "Sgeilg List". These were composed in Shrove, about local people who were marriagable. Sometimes the people mentioned in them were insulted, so the priests condemned the practice of composing them
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs E. Cotter
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    78
    Address
    Derrynafinchin, Co. Cork