School: Corrdún
- Location:
- Cartron, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Casaide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0116, Page 83
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“About thirty five years ago while my family were still young I had a very good servant girl name Givahan from Glann...”
(continued from previous page)door. They met and before the leaves withered she had kept her promises though dead at the time; as a letter which came two weeks after proved.When I was thirteen years of age I was on a visit with a relative in Crossard, Ballyhaunis. Well this day I was sent on a message to a neighbouring woman a few fields away and delivered my message and started for home. It was then three o'clock in the afternoon and although I knew the direction well and the neighbourhood I was walking for hours through beautiful fields bedecked with flowers; grand rivers I crossed and heard the bleating of lambs and other animals saw. The birds made sweet music in the trees. In the evening of a summers day when I came out on the road beside the house of a man named Folliard - the house is there still - I made my way home, three or four miles from where I should have come.
- Collector
- P. Cassidy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Catherine Cassidy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Charlestown, Co. Mayo