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Memories

If I had to live my childhood over again, I wouldn’t want to change a single bit of it, they really were very happy times.

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St. Patricks day

On St. Patrick's day all the girls wear blue ribbons and the boys gather sham-rock for their jackets.

Stories from Dúchas.ie

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Prison school is a small school which once existed in a place called Balla in Co. Mayo. Once part of the town of Manulla is situated in a townland called Prison East. The school was opened around the mid 1800’s

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Hedge-School

Hedge schools once exist in Ireland up to the 1850's. They shorthly closed after a national education system came into existence. Here are a few stories from locals from back in 1938 given their accounts of Hedge Schools. Source-Dúchas.ie

There were 3 hedge schools, two in Balla and one Rosslee, along with 3 day schools in Minolla (Manulla). The 3 hedge schools are shown to be in decline in attendance by 1836. But there were two, Day Schools which had opened in Minola in 1834. One of which had taught grammar as well as protestant and catholic catechism while the other taught only catholic catechism. The other subjects taught at these schools were: Reading Writing and Arithmetic. No area in Manulla, name of school, or roll book numbers were given to these schools, so no link can be made directly to Prizon school.

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Festivals

Tradition and believes around some of the festivals that occur around the year. COLLECTOR: Mary A. O' Doherty, female INFORMANT: Patsy Ansbro; Gender; male, Age; 84, Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo

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Do you remember folks when we had to go out with the rakes and hayforks and shake all the swarths out, and pick out the docks or any other weeds, turn it, put it into lapcocks, sometimes breastcocks, and finally into field cocks, and last but by no means least into one big haystack in the haggard, or into a hayshed if you were lucky enough to have one?

I have wonderful memories of my young days, I worked hard but loved every minute of it. I got a great appreciation of nature and wildlife, and I hope that I will have the health (and Martina says all my ‘faculties’) and pleasure of passing on this knowledge to future generations.

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The faries poem. Know by most Irish people from their school days.

The fairies poem. Know by most Irish people from their school days.