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Thread #159705   Message #3784984
Posted By: GUEST
12-Apr-16 - 06:38 PM
Thread Name: Irish tambourine
Subject: RE: Irish tambourine
The following passage is from Gaelic Journal No. 3.

Bearna na Gaoithe, Windgap, is a townland adjoining Four-mile-water. The fair was held, I believe, towards the end of August, and was attended more for fun than for buying and selling. Among those who came to the fair, on a day, more than half a century ago, was Tomás O Móráin, or Tomás a' Bhódhráin, - this latter name he got from his skill in playing on the tambourine, a bodhrán is a dried sheep-skin stretched on a hoop.