School: Achadh Fobhair (roll number 13853)
- Location:
- Aghagower, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Hannah T. Kevilla
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- The landlord of this district was Lord Sligo. The government told him to come to the people and take the land from them if they did not pay rents. In this district a good many people were turned out and they were found dead.
- Long ago children had no shoes until they were nine years old. long ago when children used to wash their feet in the basin they used to put a red coal in it before they threw it out in order that the fairies would not come to the house.
- Collector
- Mary Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lackaun, Co. Mayo
