School: Bailieboro (Model)
- Location:
- Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Ó Dubhda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1011, Page 081
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- (continued from previous page)Gilmore's land which was used by people who were going to their work in a bog nearby.
At the cross-roads many people meet on Sundays to gamble, and other people meet to talk. The road from Bailieborough to Shercock was made during the famine as a relief scheme and the wages the workers were paid was a penny a day.
Before river bridges were made stepping stones were out across the river in shallow places on which the people walked and it was called a ford.
- On Shrove Tuesday people make pancakes for their tea.
On St. patrick's Day the people wear shamrocks, and they send post-cards with shamrocks on them.
There is a rhyme about St. Stephen's Day, and that rhyme is:-
"The wren, the wren, king of all birds,
St. Stephen's it was caught in the furze;
Although she is small her family is great.(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mrs J. Mc Cartney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
