School: Adare Convent (roll number 9296)
- Location:
- Adare, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Mechtildes
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0505, Page 189
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- (continued from previous page)She was not very friendly with her neighbours and the first time she chanced to speak of what had happened that day was on the next day she met her mother. The old woman said, "If you have one of the three boys impeached for taking the yield from the churn, let you write his name backwards on a small piece of paper and burn it in a shovel over the fire". "What good will that be ?, asked the daughter. "It will be the means of restoring the butter which was lifted away", says the mother. "I doubt it as it is two months or more since it is lost", said the young woman. But she bought out the paper and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Hanly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcurly, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs M. Hanly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Kilcurly, Co. Limerick
