School: Cuan an Bhainigh (Bannow)
- Location:
- Carrick, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Tomás Breatnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0876, Page 024
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- (continued from previous page)who does his best to catch one of the players. The person who is caught has the tig and the game goes on as before.
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- Informant
- Patrick Roche
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrick, Co. Wexford
- When I went out first (as labourer) the farmers used gather all the Scutch grass from Tillage field and throw it in the bottom of a trench. About May or June in the slack time the man would draw "woar" and heap it on it. They they used cover it with a thick coat of Bannow sand and leave it to mould away. The next spring they'd turn it over and 'twould be the finest of manure.
