School: Baile na Martra (C.) (roll number 13651)

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1. A Song - To the Old Chapel at Mogeely (continued)

   

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   Till we pass beyond the chiming
   To the realms surpassing fair.
   M G
   April 28th 1912

   

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2. Old Houses

   

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   The houses in olden times were not as up to-date as they are now. The majority of them were thatched with wheaten straw. The wheaten straw was called reed. It was thrashed with a flail. If properly put up this roof last for thirty years. The houses along the sea coast used to be thatched with burroch.

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Bessie Dunlea

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Maigh Dhíle, Co. Chorcaí

   Informant

   Patrick Dunlea

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Maigh Dhíle, Co. Chorcaí