School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)
- Location:
- Riverstown, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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- (continued from previous page)he brought to Sligo in a donkey-cart and sold them.
Every time he was on these journeys he did not come home until next day and by this time he had half of his money spent drinking in a public house. He was very charitable and often shared half a loaf with his neighbours. He died at the advanced age of ninety-one much regretted by his neighbours.
In Gleann there was an old woman named Ellen Mac Neill who wove flax for her neighbours. She died at the age of eighty-eight. - There dwelt near Kilmorgan a man whose name was Mr Gethin. Long ago when there were no creameries the people made(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mona Mc Mahon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Riverstown, Co. Sligo