School: Gort an tSiúrdáin (roll number 14534)
- Location:
- Gortjordan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Módhráin
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- (continued from previous page)more called Michael Burke. He taught in a small stable near the village. The people gave him sixpence a week. He would stay a few nights in each house and the people would feed him. After a month he would change to another village. Michael Burke got a cruel death. He was drawn after a cart for five miles. He was stripped of his clothes and whipped to death.
- The old people say that if a person counted seven stars for seven nights and on the eighth night the first unmarried girl you would be sure to marry.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Sweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Illanmore, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Illanmore, Co. Mayo