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School: Carrowrile (roll number 10396)

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Carrowreilly, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó Coileáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0172, Page 325

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    boys and girls attend. Some of them bring fiddles. Others bring flutes. Five or six cribs of turf is piled on the fire. When the bonfire is burned out some people drive their cattle through the ashes. Others bring a lighted coal around their crops.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Anna Finn
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Rinbaun, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Tom Scanlon
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    66
    Address
    Rinbaun, Co. Sligo