School: Dubhgharrdha (roll number 14894)
- Location:
- Doogary, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán S. Ó Flannagáin
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- The roads were very bad in the Famine times. The people had to carry gravel on donkey and "clíabs" from sandpits to the roads. The girls had hand barrows for carrying sand too. Others had mules and "párdógs" and bog deal straddles. They had bog deal ropes too and they would last a long time for ploughing. The girls used to wear "threkeens" and they used to wear shawls and petticouts round their waist when they were getting married.
- Collector
- Agnes Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr J. Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloghvoley, Co. Mayo