School: Lisacul G.N.S. (roll number 13048)
- Location:
- Lisacul, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Ghiollanátha
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- (continued from previous page)then she went about selling them @ 1/2 d each.
Every night the young people gathered in to hear her tell stories and there as they all sat around the big turf fire she sat making her "begums" and telling them fine old Galic stories that ammused them all. She could also compose poems. Her daughter afterwards took her to England where she died. God rest her soul.
Long ago people had a sports meeting which they called a "pattern" in Kiltobrnaks and for this great event many strangers gathered into the parish. They always got lodgings in the people's houses.
On the 13th and 14th of August in bygone years the people of this district prepared many beds for the travelling invalids on their way to Knock to be cured. In these days there were only side-cars to take th(continues on next page)
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