School: Kilmore (roll number 13010)
- Location:
- An Choill Mhór, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Eilís, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)and for those depending on them. Some of them never returned. Strange white birds started to appear in the sky over the people’s houses and priests started to watch there movements they used to go to the house where people were dead. They were sent by God to console they people who had lost their families.
Supplied by James McPartland, Corkhill. 55years
Written by Brigid Corristine, Killadiskert
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- Collector
- Tessie Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill an Dísirt, Co. Liatroma
- Informant
- James Mc Partland
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Corr Choill Íochtarach, Co. Liatroma
- A but of butter was found in Glosdromon bogs by a man named Patrick McNulty about twenty years ago. When he got it, it was as fresh looking as new butter. Butter was put in the bogs to keep it fresh. Bog water was the best for keeping it from rotting. Butter or anything else put in with it is well preserved.
Supplied by Tessie McLoughlin, Killadiskert
