School: Scairt (B.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4126)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Rinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0375, Page 260
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- (continued from previous page)on this return home he kept the ticket in his hand. He was lighting his pipe in Cork and he laid his ticket by, and forgot about it until it was again demanded.
Then Johnny found he had neither ticket or money and he did not know what to do, until a friend in the train paid his fare for him to his delight.
He made a small curious van for himself which he used in travelling around the country, and a pair of asses drawing it.
At last his end approached. While attending a friend's funeral he stayed out fairly late that night. On his return home he developed a severe cold which afterwards developed into pneumonia, and so caused his death.
It was his wish to be buried in a tomb which he made himself in the river but he was not.
- Collector
- Peggie Cross
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Informant
- Mrs E. Cross
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Kildorrery, Co. Cork
