School: Dalystown (roll number 15307)
- Location:
- Baile Uí Dhálaigh, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: Kathleen Grehan
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- (continued from previous page)that such seed was better than smaller potatoes cut or uncut. She had always a lot of food for pigs and fowl left from the cuttings and the best crop of anyone in the locality. She is about 7 years dead and was about 80 years old when she died.
This story was told by
Joseph Creevy - 76 years
Dalystown,
Mullingar
- ago 60 years ago John Browne of Dalystown and James Sherlock Dalystown used to make baskets of all sorts and cleeves and crandies.They made them from Sally rods and hazel rods. They boiled the sally rods and peeled(continues on next page)
