School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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“Many stories were told about tailors who in those old times liked to travel from one district to another, and in each place do a bout of sewing, both mending and making.”
(continued from previous page)told him what to say in order to change back again from the hare, and then said it would be as well for him to forget all that happened, for his own good. The tailor was only too glad to do so, but 'twas many a day before he forgot the burn of the whip. (R.B.)(no title)
“When I was a boy, a mere child maybe, I remember that when the Christmas candle was lighted on Xmas eve, my mother used take a spray of holly from that which was used to decorate the house, hold it in the flame of the Christmas candle and when, after some”
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“Glnógra, dead!?there were two creels of bonhams there the last fair day!”
The following remarks upon the fair of Glenogra, make me think that quite a volume could be written on the "dead" fairs of Co. Limerick. These remarks were offered uninvited, by a man,
Mr. Patrick O'Donnell, who at the moment he was speaking to me, did not know who I was. I give these(continues on next page)