School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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- (continued from previous page)For a lump of fat bacon you'd not be short taken
With some cabbage to put where the meat is;
A pair of new brogues and two [] skillogues
To draw water from off the boiled praties.Some flax and a wheel, some wool and a reel,
And a besom to kept the house snug;
A few bundles of friese to cover my thighs
And for you a neat piece of brown rug.
But then for young Thady we must have clothes ready
With pineady to keep him a feeding;
A cradle see-saw and a red bolster's claw
To give to the brat when he's teething.
Some soap to wash all, shirts stockings and caul,
A table, three stools and a [].
All this I will give and I think we may live,
As well as the justice of Quorum.
But Biddy astore should you want anyore,
Roar out without any bother.
For an Irishman's pride to whatever betide,
To keep his poor wife in good order.- Collector
- Mary E. Conboy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clooncarreen, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 68
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Meelragh (Saggart), Co. Leitrim