School: Banada (B.) (roll number 14304)
- Location:
- Banada, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Sr. Mac Dhuarcáin
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The old people say that long ago the people used to bury the people in a barn. They used to keep a barn as a grave-yard. Each farmer used to have a barn for burying his own people.
The people say yet that there was a man buried in an old house in Gurtermone. The house fell after a few years. It is like a fence now. it is between two farms of land. The name of the place where it is, is called Salairh thawn. The people say that it got its name from the fact that it was not long thrown when it became covered with(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Prionsias Ó Conaill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortermone, Co. Sligo
