School: St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh
- Location:
- Béal Átha Seanaidh, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: An Br. S. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1027, Page 083
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- (continued from previous page)“Rope Walk.” It was there that most of the ropes were made. He also made them in the Market Yard where he lived and where some of his family still reside.
- Long ago the fever was raging in this district. People came from all parts to a place in the Abbey known as the “sweat house”. This house resembled a lime-kiln. The person suffering from fever entered this house, in which there was a great big fire. The heat was so great that the person was supposed to have sweated the fever away.
- Collector
- Paul Dolan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Béal Átha Seanaidh, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Mr J. J. Woods
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Béal Átha Seanaidh, Co. Dhún na nGall
