School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)
- Location:
- Gort na dTíobh Thiar, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teachers: Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 098
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- Mick was a butcher who lived in Lower Leahive. He used to visit large farmers around Creggs two or three times a week and inquired if they had any sick sheep. If the answer was in the negative his reply was "A bad job sir." He always bought sick sheep for a small sum of money whether he killed them or whether they died a natural death he sold or hawked the meat from house to house in a donkey cart. He weighed the meat in chunks and stuck a peeled bit a sally rod into each chunk before he left home. This rod contained as many nick as there were lbs in the piece. He had a a favorite question for children when he went into a house. It was -
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