School: Lubhghortán (Lowertown), Scoil Mhuire (roll number 4172)
- Location:
- Lowertown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhathúna
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- (continued from previous page)Those skiffs were used for holding potatoes long ago. They were in boats too, for holding fish. The old people would never give those skiffs to anybody for nothing, because they considered it unlucky. Those twigs, are very scarce now, because people make no use of them and they grew into thick sticks and no use can be made out of them.
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- Informant
- John Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Gunpoint, Co. Cork