School: Mell, Mell N. School, Drogheda (roll number 855)
- Location:
- Meille, Co. Lú
- Teacher: E. Ní Cholmáin
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“Well! a ghrá. I don't think you will collect much folklore around this place...”
(continued from previous page)own people grew flax here and there was a large hole of stagnant water at the bottom of the yard where they used to steep it. I saw it myself and they would bleach it out here in the garden There was a watch house in the garden for minding the flax. The remains of it are still to be seen. An old man named John Graham told me that when he was a young boy he used to be attending a thatcher in Pat Fee's (the place Bells have now) for tenpence per day and the thatcher's breakfast consisted of a saucepan of porridge and milk and it would be handed up to him on the house - he would not get time to come down and eat it.
- Collector
- Eibhlís Ní Cholmáin
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Meille, Co. Lú
- Informant
- John Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Meille, Co. Lú