School: Dubhgharrdha (roll number 14894)
- Location:
- Doogary, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán S. Ó Flannagáin
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- (continued from previous page)he go, will he go on a motor car and what colour will it be and so on.
- When my father is making a pairof "pardogs" he gets a bundle of rods and brings them out in the garden and sticks them down in such a way that they enclose a sod of about two feet square in the garden. He plaits other rods across the ones that are stuck down in the garden. He makes the "pardogs" about two feet high. The bottom of the "pardogs" is not attached to the rest of except at one side so that it needs a support which is called the "slodgeen" when the slodgeen(continues on next page)
