School: Castlegrove (roll number 15475)

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   the woodlands plucking all classes of wild flowers or blackberries in the harvest time. Small boys like top making, yo yo making from thread spools, and making pop-guns from old broken bicycle pumps. I have heard of boys who hid in laurel bushed with pop-guns and water to watch beggars at the door, and when the opportunity arrived they shot the water in the beggars' faces.

   

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   There are but few tailors living now for miles around. In this parish only one I know of lives. In the course of the last few months two tailors died in the parish. The present tailor dwells in Castlegrove village. His name is Pat Connolly. He works at home, never travelling from house to house as tailors did in years gone by. He keeps no cloth in store, the cloth is purchased in the shop by the person who wants to get a gar-

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   Topics

   1. earraí
      1. éadaí agus suaitheantais (~2,403)

   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Collector

   Mary Mooney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cill Chonla, Co. na Gaillimhe

   Informant

   Thomas Mooney

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cill Chonla, Co. na Gaillimhe