School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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- (continued from previous page)to bleed, and bled the full of the pond, and from that day to this the water in the pond is red.
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- Micheál O hArtagáin
- Gender
- Male
- Paddy Nunan cut sticks in Ballinaguila fort. He got a pain n his eye and couldn't sleep. One evening a strange man came to him and said "bring back the green stick to where you got it. He did so and his eye was alright immediately. (Seán O Fithcheallaigh) Ballinaguila fort is in Kilfinny parish.
- All about the district of Croom: Kilfinny Croom and Manister, there was a rhyme current among threshers and thence among other workers insinuating that the quality and output of work depended on how the worker was fed (by the employer)Beef, beer and bread:
Sheaf, take care of your head!but the danger to the head of the sheaf was minimised when a less sustaining dietary prevailed thus:Praties and blawak
Work if you can, - There was a great number of peope assembled together in the church field (liath Mochaomhóg Tiob. Ár.) There was a man(continues on next page)
