School: Dubhgharrdha (roll number 14894)
- Location:
- Doogary, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán S. Ó Flannagáin
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- (continued from previous page)thrash it and the girls would tease it and spin it in to thread and weave it into sheets. They would bring it to a river and leave it on the grass until the sun and frost bleached it.
- A woman of the Colemans from Tubber in the days of the famine was going to the Poor House in Swinford and she died on the way with hunger. There people often found dead and their mouths full of grass and leaves of bushes.
- Collector
- Paddy Costello
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Caher, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs T. Kilkenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Caher, Co. Mayo
