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School: Baile Haodha (C.), Ráthluirc

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Newtown Ballyhay, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Mrs. Julia Herbert
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0374, Page 329

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    piee of cloth up on the tubs and the sheets hanging about their heads. The police met them on the road and they saluted them, of course they thought twas going wattling the clothes they were. They took no notice of the tubs on their heads because it was a custom long ago to take everything up on their heads even a gallon of water.
    At that time people were supposed to let the doors open by day because the police came every day to search their houses. When the police searched this womans's house he found no food in it. While they were searching the house the women hid the sheep and when night came they had a grand feed and at the same time they told the story to their husbands.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie Casey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballynadrideen, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mrs Brassill
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    80
    Address
    Ballynadrideen, Co. Cork