School: Beacán (C.)
- Location:
- Bekan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Dhonnchú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0109, Page 265
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- (continued from previous page)they ask many things tea, sugar flour and meat.
The men deal in asses the night before a fair they drive a flock of them in to a meadow field near by and mind them all night. In the morning if they sell them, they get drunk and are often fighting amongst themselves soon the guards come on the scene and many of them are often put in to the barracks.
The most frequent of the families that visited our district were the Reilly's Maughans and many others but their names are not known. Mrs. Plunket comes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Lyons
- Gender
- Female
