School: Doirín Dáimh Dheirg / Dereendafderg (roll number 13469)
- Location:
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Seóighe
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090D, Page 01_032
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: Doirín Dáimh Dheirg / Dereendafderg
- XML Page 01_032
- XML (no title)
- XML “A Roadmender Tells of his Experiences while Working on the Road”
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
(no title) (continued)
“Between eight and half past eight we carry heavy loads...”
(continued from previous page)am short of coppers everyone seems to be short as well. Whenever I am short of silver everyone has coppers. At ten past five I am back again in the garage. I count my cash and tickets and hand them into the cashier. The rest of the day is mine. I am free now until six o'clock in the morning. Then, when my noisy alarm whirrs the daily routine will begin again.
- Often I have a good laugh at those who think they know more about the weather than I do. One fine morning Martin Dolan, the philosopher, who lives back there said to me that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Caitlín Ní Ging
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo
