School: Rear Cross, Newport (roll number 12124)
- Location:
- Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pilib Ó Muireadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 221
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- (continued from previous page)the three jumped out and he gave the whole morning trying to catch the animal. There were men coming home from the fair and when they saw Pat McCarthy trying to get the animal they began to laugh and when he he saw them laughing he wondered "By God" he said "it's hardly laughing at me they are because it is too much of me they see".
- A man named Patrick Deere went into a house one day. This man was travelling and he went in to the woman for his tea. He asked "would you have any eggs?" She answered "Yes". Then the woman asked the traveller "what way would you like your egg boiled?". "With another, mam" said the traveller.
- Once upon a time Matt Nolan worked with a gentleman for one week. When the week was up the gentleman paid him. He gave him eleven pence.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Deere
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baurnadomeeny, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Matt Nolan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castleaffy, Co. Mayo
