School: Wilkinstown (roll number 1917)
- Location:
- Wilkinstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire Ní Failcheallaigh
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- If they wanted their boots they would say:"Give me over my "brógs".
If they were telling you a story they would say:"A leanna", or a "cuisle", or a "choilín".
If they wanted a drink, they would say:"Give me a "noggin " of water, "gersa".
If you gave them anything, they wold sometimes say: "Go raibh maith agat".
If a visitor came to the house the person in the house would say:"Fáilte romhat".
If a person was leaving a house, the people in the would say:"Beannacht leat".
If a person was going to pass the night in some other house they would say:"I'm going for a "céilídh".. - It is customary to put your boots in the form of a T when you are going to bed on Hallow Eve and say "I put my boots in the form of a T hoping tonight my true-love to see, the colour of his hair and the clothes he does wear, and his fair face turned to me."
- Collector
- Nancy Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Wilkinstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Brigid Flood
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Wilkinstown, Co. Meath