School: Straboe (roll number 12934)
- Location:
- Straboe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Bríd Nic Cormaic
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- Long ago in Ireland when two or more families got water in the same well, they used to see which would be at the well first on the first of May, for whoever would be first to the well would have good churning all year around.
- Collector
- Teresa Daly
- Gender
- Female