School: Gort an Tuair (roll number 13467)
- Location:
- Gortatoor, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Áine Nic Oirealla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 457
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- In the long -ago days, there were lots of beggars going round.
There was one old woman named Biddy Lyons. She was a very small woman.
She used to wear a funny sort of dress. She used to wear a red petticoat and a flannel jacket. She used to wear shoes made out of flaxen straw. She used to wear a ring made out of wire. She used to make a hair-pin out of a feather. She used to smoke a clay pipe. What she used to smoke in it was Irish tobbacco. She used to get it in every house, as the people used to grow their own tabacco.
- Collector
- Gerrard Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gallowshill, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gallowshill, Co. Mayo
