School: Shallee, Tulach Sheasta (roll number 6245)
- Location:
- Shallee (Coughlan), Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chonchubhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0538, Page 169
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- (continued from previous page)that cold March was gone and that now she was safe. But March borrowed eleven days from April and the weather was so cold that the old cow died on the eleventh day.
- A great many travelling people call to the houses in our district. Some of them are very poor, and some of them have enough. Some of them sell small articles and the people but for charity from them.
When they come to this district they come here for a couple of nights. They sleep in camps on the side of the road which they make themselves. During the day they beg for food, such as four, meat, bread, milk, tea, sugar, and potatoes.(continues on next page) - Informant
- John Behan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aughboy, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Thomas Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aughboy, Co. Tipperary
