School: Drumloughan (Dromlachan) (roll number 15665)
- Location:
- Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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- Long ago before the bad times the straws went around. If a straw was delivered in your house you had to start and deliver 3 straws in 3 houses that had not already got a straw. If you didn't do this it was said that yourself and all the family would die with the ''cholera morbis''. Well Barney McKiernan was up on the house thatching when a man came struggling up the lane walking partly on his hands and feet. Old Barney came down and the man pushed a straw into his hand and said: ''if you don't deliver 3 straws in 3 houses where there is no straws yourself and all your family will die with the cholera morbis''.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Kilkenny
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim