School: Clais (roll number 8692)
- Location:
- Clash, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Cristíona Ní Chearbhalláinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0536, Page 096
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- (continued from previous page)house and her son would stop in another house. She could not leave the horse on the road that time. If the horse was caught she would have to pay so much for it. She would have to pay about half a crown for her lodging and for a field for the horse. The son was a great singer he often sang for people and he would get something. He had to give anything he got to his mother and if he did not give it to her she would take it from him when he would be in bed and that is why the two of them would not stay in the one house. They often stayed with people in Toomevara and they would not take anything without the money. She used to sell things for a house and small things for a house. People used to buy a lot from her. She had some small things for yourself. They were going around up to about twenty years ago.(continues on next page)
