School: Ráth Bhán (roll number 15996)
- Location:
- Rathbaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Ss Ó Donnchadha
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- Long ago tailors and Tailoresses used to go to the different villages making clothes.
There was a tailor living near this school.If any body sneezes and an old person hears him the old person says "God Bess Us or "Dia Linn". If any body is going a journey and the old perople hear it they generally say "God speed them" or "Go n-eirigh and mbothar leo".If the old ever get a bell in their ear they make the sign of the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kate Philbin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Mayo