School: An Góilín, An Sciobairín (roll number 5656)
- Location:
- Goleen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: P. Ó Meádhra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0287, Page 165
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A man went to clear briars around a headland, before he'd got cutting his wheat.
There was about 20 ac. in the field. A hare jumped out as he was cutting round the headland, and he threw the hook at the hare, thinking that he'd kill him, He went home to get the machine to cut the corn, and when he came back the hare had all the corn cut. II.
When a ship used to be wrecked they used to hear the sailors talking and the noises of the rigging before the storm.
A ship was 'drowned' at Scairt at Dunmanus Bay and the Cooper was to be heard always for years after working in the Cuas. III.
Old women long ago when they used to be selling eggs for hatching used want to know how the tide was, when they were putting down the eggs, for if the tide was coming they'd have all cocks and if the tide was going all hens.
They saw too that if a cow was calving with a coming tide that she'd have a bull calf, and if the tide was going it would be a heifer.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Tim Lucy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Ballyrisode, Co. Cork
