School: Ballyburke (roll number 5125)
- Location:
- Bellaburke, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090F, Page 17_026
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- (continued from previous page)long ago. They got rushes and peeled the skin off them and killed an old cow and got the fat and that is the way candles were invented. There was a half-door on every house to keep the ducks and hens out of the house. Before they used to go to bed they tied a stick across the door and that stick was called the maide Eamoinn. There was a man living in our village and he had his cows and calves tied at the end of the house and one day a guard came to the house and got the cattle(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Geraty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Balloor West, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mike Parsons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Balloor West, Co. Mayo
