School: Moys (roll number 10837)
- Location:
- Moy Otra, Co. Monaghan
- Teachers: P. Dawson C. Mac an Ghirr
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- (continued from previous page)Freets:- especially is she is barefooted.If you want to keep great with the fairies do not cut down the gentle bushes and don't build your house on their pads
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- Cill on FireThere are a number of people left sitting that doesn't know the game. There is a man left holding a cap and he is the king bee and the rest go outside and come in and out a few times, humming with a straw accross their mouth and then they come in with their mouths of water and they all stand around the man holding the cap and they all spit the water on him and he does be nearly drowned.
- All the men that are the masons go outside and one man in the house gives command what to do. When the masons come in with their hands full of Claber (?) and clay, then they all stand in a line one after the other, then the commander says(continues on next page)
