School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Muileann na hUamhan, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 382
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- Long ago people used potatoes instead of starch. They used to boil the potatoes and pound them very finely and then make a thin paste. Potatoes are sown in ridges and drills.
- 1. 1 February will search.
March will try.
April will tell you whether you will live or die.2. A wet and windy May.
Fills the barn with corn and hay. - 3. It is bad to be bad and poor after.
- Collector
- Nellie O' Connell
- Address
- Muileann na hUamhan, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Mrs O' Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 66
- Occupation
- Shoemaker's wife
- Address
- Muileann na hUamhan, Co. Thiobraid Árann
