School: Straboe (roll number 12934)
- Location:
- Straboe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Bríd Nic Cormaic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0835, Page 136
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- There was once a sultry hot summer before the Great Southern and Western railway was made. There was an old blind woman liveing in "T" lane Portlaoighise and she had a cow which a chap used to drive every day to the river to giver her a drink. After a time all the rivers got dry and the poor woman had no water to give to the cow. She sat under a tree where the railway is built now and began to cry and she made a hole in the ground with her stick and spring water came up. So it went by Biddy ach a(continues on next page)
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- Christina Bergin
- Gender
- Female
