School: Ballivor (roll number 9380)
- Location:
- Ballivor, Co. Meath
- Teacher: T. Ua Conmhidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 262
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- (continued from previous page)take sieve. When he would go that house they would tell him to go to the next house, and they would make him go through the country till he would come back to the house where he was at first.
There was another name for Shrove which is Siraft.
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- Informant
- Frank Dempsey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballivor, Co. Meath
- A legend
It is the belief old people that when they would bury treasure they should bury a sow with young pigs. They are supposed to guard.
