School: Cor Bealaigh
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 107](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0163%2FCBES_0163_107.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 107
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cor Bealaigh
- XML Page 107
- XML “The Cows”
- XML “Sheep and Cats”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)threw the rope was closed for a long time after that, and the next time he opened it the room was half full with butter.
- The people that keep sheep round this district are Maughans, Dorans, and Becketts. They keep about from a hundred to a hundred and fifty sheep.
The cure for keeping the flies off the sheep is to "dip" them in blue stone water. The blue stone has to be steeped in a tub of water for a few days. When they "dip" the sheep in the water they have a brush and they rub the blue stone water tightly into the wool with the brush. The black woll(continues on next page)- Collector
- Michael Foody
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Emlymoran, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr James Foody
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockbrack, Co. Sligo