School: Doirín Dáimh Dheirg / Dereendafderg (roll number 13469)
- Location:
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Seóighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090D, Page 15_006
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- Bríghid Ní Ging
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo
- They wore grotesque war-caps made of various substances and decorated with feathers. Their faces and bodies were painted so as to make them look as frightful as possible ; and as they brandished their massive clubs, leaped, shouted, yelled, and dashed each other to the ground, I thought I had never before seen men looked so like demons.
