Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1937–1938
- Collector
- Location
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“I have lived to see a great many changes. I am now eighty seven years of age.”
(continued from previous page)Galway, Mayo and Roscommon. There was a Cobbler, and a thatcher named Raftery.
Raftery, the thatcher, made Bee Hives of woven straw sewn together into shape with strings of dry grasses that grew in the bogs. There was a woman who made sugar-stick and brown rock. The youngsters called her "Biddy Sugar-stick" and "Biddy Ballymoe". Biddy Sugar-stick attended the markets at Glenamaddy, Williamstown and Castlerea on her ass and cart. On arriving at the market, Biddy Sugar-stick, released the ass from the cart, and the well trained ass fed on a bag of hay Biddy had carried with her. Biddy next arranged her sugar sticks, fruit and vegetables on her cart, and she was immediately surrounded by youngsters; kind and generous to them Biddy was. It frequently occured that the(continues on next page)