School: Doire an Céise (C )
- Location:
- Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Uaid
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- (continued from previous page)same order as a mangle. The flax was weighed every Saturday night and they were paid according to the amount they had scutched.
- About twenty two years ago there was a man named Owen Barlow who lived in the town-land of Corfad and he made "poiteen". He made it out of sugar, treacle and barm.
Some person told the police and he was summoned and fined ten pounds. He was unable to pay this money and he went to work in America. The work he got was rising sand, and when he was a few days working the sand-pit fell on him and he(continues on next page) - Collector
- Annie Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Pat Connolly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corragarry, Co. Cavan
