School: Convent of Mercy, Rinn an Chabhlaigh, Cóbh
- Location:
- Ringacoltig, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Peadar
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0386, Page 017
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There lived in the town of Queenstown in the year 1878 a pig butcher and buyer who used to attend the pig and cattle fairs of Midleton which is about twelve miles from Queenstown, for to buy pigs for another market. Now this man's name was Timothy Cróinín. Now this man had a queer old way of his own, rather stubborn at times, however, he went to the fair this day and bought a lot of pigs and sent them home by crib. Poor Tim went with his pals to pay them for the pigs and where do you think they went to settle their accounts but into a pub and when their accounts were settled they had a proper spread out. However they overdid the thing and the(continues on next page)
