School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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- There are old roads all aroung the country which are used only when some pedisterian takes "a short cut" which means going by an old road across fields, hills, and valleys instead of going the longer way by the public road. In dry weather these old roads are very pleasant to walk upon being soft and green and only in very few places have become overgrown with heather or ferns. There are very wide roads and also very narrow roads. The latter are called bóthríns which means little or small road and are just passages leading from the wide roads to houses and field etc.
There were resting places along those roads for in those days poor people for the most part carried loads on their backs or in large ciseáns. The roads always ran by good clean streams and spring wells so that weary travellers were sure of refreshment.(continues on next page)- Collector
- John Lenihan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Polke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Ballinglen, Co. Mayo