School: Scoil Naomh Eoin, Bréachmhuigh (roll number 13781)

Location:
Breaghwy, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
A.M. Mac Taidhg
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0089D, Page 04_029

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0089D, Page 04_029

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    parish in the country. I the spring time on market days a lot of people sells a lot of seed, potatoes, turnips flowers and so on.
    When the people buy a cow or a heaver or whatever sort of a beast they buy the get some paint or chalk and put a mark on the beast the ways the the other people would know that he was bought. The fairs that the people had in every parish are held every year now a lot of them are knocked off.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tomás Ó Laighin
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Tomás Ó Laighin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilkenny, Co. Mayo