School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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- (continued from previous page)They had no lamps only to peel rushes and dip them in talla and one had to hold while the rest were eating and the spend the rest of the night in the dark. They had cups made of timber. They had no looking glass only to look in to a pot of water.
- Long ago when the Danes were in Ireland they made houses out around the mountains, They got two big stones and put a big flag over them. When they slept in them(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Woods
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare