School: Coiscéim (C.), Átha Treasna (roll number 10079)
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Bean Uí Nialláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0356, Page 231
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- (continued from previous page)Tommy used to stay at Mahony King's . He could never get enough of fat meat to eat.
Then there was Colonel OSullivan who imagined he was in dozens of wars and always victorious. He thought he owned the castles of OSullivan Beara. He was all the time promising legacies to those who were kind to him. He would give them "when his ships would come home" but alas! they never came. He wore numbers of medals - many of the religious emblems - across his chest.
Free Mary OConnor (Humphrey) was still another. Free had a voice like a foghorn. He never wore shoes. He was often employed to fill a car with furze bushes to put in gaps & he used to do the packing with his bare feet. He had a shoe protector stuck in the sole of his foot for weeks and there was no fear that his leg festered.
There was Con the fool whom all the village children used to follow calling out "Con the fool, the moon is up. Catch a crust, and crust it up." The tinker tribe included the Coffeys, the Sheridans the Harringtons, the Briens the Sweeneys.
- Collector
- M. Neylon
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
