School: Cluain Tuaiscirt (roll number 1405)

Location:
Clontuskert, Co. Galway
Teacher:
(name not given)
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  1. When the shades of late, late evening came slowly sifting down on midsummer night, the boys began gathering from the glens and the dales, wending their way in twos, threes and half-dozens to the top of Knockdiara hill, everyone bringing with him as much as he could drag of whins, brasna, limbs of trees, bogfir, turf, or broken boxes. And after these toiling groups came bands of merry girls, some shawled, some unshawled, who made the evening ring with laughter. And finally the old men and wiseheads of the countryside.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Loircean
    Gender
    Female