School: Nurney (roll number 16345)
- Location:
- Nurney, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: S. Ó Buadhcháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0780, Page 132
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- (continued from previous page)Old people with rheumatism feel the pain more. Smoke from the chimney curls downwards. A mackerel sky is the sign of rain
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“Pat O'Beirne of Gurteen carried sixty stone of wheat from end of a long barn to the other and back again...”
Francis Bohan Nurney (collected from Stephen O'Brien Nurney)
Pat O'Beime of Gurteen carried sixty stone of wheat from end of a long barn to the other and back again. He did it for a wager.
All the farmers used to cut the turf and one of the pastimes on the bog was to drive down a pointed stick by blows of a turf lane into the top of the bog and then to compete as to who would pull out the stick up with their teeth alone. - Collector
- Francis Bohan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Nurney, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Stephen O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Nurney, Co. Kildare
- Games
No games of hurling or football were played but bowling with metal bowls(continues on next page)
