School: Caroreigh (roll number 6700)
- Location:
- An Cheathrú Riabhach, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Séamas Ó Cellaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 036
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- There was once a man named Patrick Murphy. He lived in a gate lodge in Bricketstown.
He used to make baskets and beehives. He made them with wheaten straw and strong briars and sallies and peel them and bind them around the straw. He used to sow corn out of them in old times.
He used make beehives and armchairs. He would bring to the market and get good price for them.
- Collector
- Mary Gorman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Cheathrú Riabhach, Co. Loch Garman
- Informant
- Mrs Gorman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Cheathrú Riabhach, Co. Loch Garman
- St Martins Day is on the eleventh of November. St Martin was a great fisherman.
None of the fishermen go out to fish on St Martins night. St Martin was ground up in a mill. In olden times Millers would not mill on St Martins Day. People kill something on the eve of St Martins and sprinkle the blood out side the door in honour of St Martin.
