School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)
- Location:
- Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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- XML “Biddy Pound on a Pig”
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- Informant
- Thomas Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 91
- Address
- Knockmascahill, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Hegarty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
- Biddy got this nickname because when she would want a lb a bacon she would say give me a pound of pig. She never wore a shoe and she rised to go to breggs for stuff across the fields. One day passing by a thorn hedge a big thorn went up in her heel. All the neighbours had a "go" at the thorn to try to get it out and they all failed.(continues on next page)