School: Dún Flainn (roll number 9669)
- Location:
- Dún Fhlainn Uachtarach, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Seán Ó Maolagáin
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- (continued from previous page)died 10 or 12 years ago and he was probably the last of the honoured ones.
- Years ago wives sat on the horses with their husbands. There was a saddle known as the súgán made of straw for the purpose. It consisted of a saddle to the front on which the man sat, them to his back was a seat in the form of a chair on which the wife sat down. The last pair seen passing this way was over 40 years ago when a man and his wife were going to the Blessed Well in Dromard to perform a station on the 29th June. Mary Farry, Grangebeg,
Skreen, Co. Sligo.
Obtained from my teacher. - Collector
- Mary Farry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Ghráinseach Bheag, Co. Shligigh
