School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)
- Location:
- Doirín an Lomáin, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0293, Page 166
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- (continued from previous page)dig the potatoes. When he had them dug he came and dug the tillage again to see would he get a potatoe for his family but his master killed him with a spade. Horse cars of people used to be carried in to the Abbey in Skibbereen and all of them buried in one hole.
- The following incident is said to have taken place in Carthy's island, an island between Schull and Ballydehob. It was the custom to hold a "pattern" there on Sunday in the Summer time. One one occasion some girls were jumping over the graves of three sailors who are buried there, when a hand(continues on next page)
- Collector
- J. Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
