There was once a man named Sean. He was a shoemaker by trade and he was very poor.
He used to go out visiting every night
INFORMANT: Martin Ansbro, Age 74, Dooros, Co. Mayo
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About one hundred years ago there lived a man in England. He heard that there were very old people in Ireland and he came home to see them.
INFORMANT: Martin Ansbro, Age 74, Dooros, Co. Mayo
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The woman had the cow sold when he got there, and he could not get the money. He reported it to the guards. They could not get the money but by law.
INFORMANT: Martin Ansbro, Age 74, Address, Dooros, Co. Mayo.
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In the village of Ara Co Mayo there was a man called James Reddington.....
INFORMANT: Martin Ansbro, Age 74, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo
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Tavanagh Road which is east of this school is 1,000 years old. It leads from Bohola to Balla.
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The games played in Patsy's childhood were top spinning, taws (marbles) ball playing.
INFORMANT: Patsy Ansbro, Age 84, Address, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo
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The woman had the cow sold when he got there, and he could not get the money. He reported it to the guards. They could not get the money but by law.
INFORMANT: Martin Ansbro, Age 74, Address, Dooros, Co. Mayo.
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Long ago a ship went out to sea. A big shark kept following it for a long time.
Martin Ansbro, Age 74, Address, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo
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Informants:
- John Kelly age 50.
- Martin Ansbro age 74.
- Mrs Kelly age 45.
A family named Herons who lived in Balla were digging a foundation for a cottage where stands the McEllin Hotel at present. They came on a pot of gold supposed to contain 2,000 guineas...
COLLECTOR: Mary A. O' Doherty, female INFORMANT: Patsy Ansbro; Gender; male, Age; 84, Tawnaghmore, Co. Mayo
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Some riddle by Mary Kate Kelly. See how many you can answer?
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The ruins of a prison stand in this place and from that prison this district got its name....The hangman's name was Neilén Brady. He had a farm of sixty acres of the best land in Prison and this land is to this day called "Trían Neilén."
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"Straw-boys" or "clubberas" visit the houses on the night of the marriage feast. They dance and make fun. They dress in straw hats with sugans round their knees, false faces etc.
They expect to get drink and make mischief if they don't.
The people then brought it to a little kiln on their farms and dried it there. It was then beatled with a beatle (a beatle resembled a cricket bat I am informed). It was then scutched with a scutcher ( a scutcher is also made of timber but is much lighter than the beatle, it is almost as thin as a knife).
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There was a Jack Mahon in Ballymahon, Balla parish , who was supposed to have a "charm" for mowing. He would whet his scythe in the morning and mow till night and he could do as much work in one day as two men would do in two days.
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This happened at Ballinamore, Parish of Kiltimagh, Mayo. The woman was a Mrs. Quinn. The neighbours always said that the family might thank the lepruchaun for their "good means".
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The fair is now held on the street of the town, but some years ago before the land was divided and when the large farms were grazed entirely the fairs were so large that they had to be held in the fair-green.
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