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School: Ardgroom (roll number 12261)

Location:
Ardgroom, Co. Cork
Teacher:
R. Ó Hurdail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0276, Page 433

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    usually by the woman of the house or by a crowd of women.
    When they are cutting the sgiollans it is necessary for them to leave eyes in the sgiollans so as they will grow. If they do not set the sgiollans for a week or so they put lime on them. It is usually the young girls that stick the sgiollans and then they close the holes in evening before stopping work, for fear that the night would rain and the sgiollans would get destroyed.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Anna Kelleher
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bunskellig, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Timothy Kelleher
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bunskellig, Co. Cork