School: Oldcastle (C.) (roll number 12489)
- Location:
- Oldcastle, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire D. Ní Nualláin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 085
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Once there lived in Ballyjamesduff a woman named Mary Reilly. This woman was famous for making brooms or as they are sometimes called beesoms. She made them out of heather which she got from the bog. She would carry the heather home on her back. She would also cut a bundle of briars and pare the skin off them. With this peel she would tie the brooms on besoms, which she sold at a penny each. This great woman is dead now
- Informant
- Mrs Halpin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fennor Upper, Co. Meath
