School: Doirín Dáimh Dheirg / Dereendafderg (roll number 13469)
- Location:
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Seóighe
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- (continued from previous page)lives back there on the roadside, told me one day that there would be great heat. "We'll have plenty rain a mhic" said I "and it would be better for you go back for your coat". "Divil a drop we'll have" he said. But he was wrong. I saw him coming home at five o'clock and him drenched to the skin.While I sit here on my pile of stones and I watch people and carts, motor-cars and bicycles going the roads and every one has a story for me. I remember once seeing the doctor's car going up to Old Kitty and five minutes after Johnnie came tearing by on a bicycle. It wasn't long after until the priest's Ford passed by(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bríghid Ní Ging
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo