School: Sráid (C.) (roll number 14370)
- Location:
- Strade, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Liodáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0124, Page 24
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- (continued from previous page)would have it made up two or three of them to meet at the cross-roads. One of them used to go a long way and the other one the short way. When they used to meet at the fair. The one that would sell the first would have to buy a half-quarter of tobacco for the first one that was at the fair. That was an old custom they used to play long ago but it do not be at the fairs nowadays. When there was somebody dead in a house long ago. It is said that the first person that would see the corps should be there the three days, at the corps house the, the funeral and at the burial When that person would(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mulroy
- Gender
- Female
