School: Mín a Ghabhann (Meenagowan) (roll number 16823)
- Location:
- Mín an Ghabhann, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Glacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1054B, Page 06_022
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“There was an old man living over in Dooey. ...”
(continued from previous page)he could find. He used to gather up all the pieces of wood and take them home and make noggins and buts; Buts for holding butter, And for hoops black sallow rods. He would boil and peel them so to make them easy to work. And when winter would come he would go through the bogs in search of roots of grages and split them up and make ropes of them.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anna Ní Méallaigh
- Other names
- Anna Ní Méallaigh
- Annie Melley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Raithnigh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr Peter McDaid
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Raithnigh, Co. Donegal