School: Enfield
- Location:
- An Mhaighean, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Uí Dhomhnaill
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- (continued from previous page)got a few sheaves of oats and threshed them with a flail. Then they made thumb ropes of straw and plaited them in and out with some more twisted straw. Then they turned the ends of it in to make the mat look neat.
- Under the fire and over the fire and does not touch the fire? A cake in the oven?
I went out the garden gate, I met my uncle Teddy. I cut off his head, and drank his blood and left his body easy?
A bottle of Whiskey?
What walks with its head down? Nails in your boot?- Collector
- John Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Cnoc an Leachta (Wills), Co. Ros Comáin
- Informant
- James Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Cnoc an Leachta (Wills), Co. Ros Comáin
- Informant
- John Callaghan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- An Bhothach, Co. Ros Comáin
- About forty years ago there lived in County Galway a man, He was coming home from rambling one night, It was very late. He met a man, dressed in black, and the latter stood before him and would not let him pass. He next throw the man in across the wall and out(continues on next page)