School: Cluainín (roll number 13231)
- Location:
- Cloneen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Néill
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- About the year after the black and tan terror, the people of the village were alarmed one morning about three o clock to hear an old woman shout that her house was on fire, and jumping out of bed, and dressing quickly, it was found to be only too true that there were two houses partly on fire, and that they were getting worse every moment.In ten minutes all the men, and women were lending a hand. The women made a line from the pump up, and were handing buckets of water, until the men were able to get hoses, and barrels to carry it.Finding the water was not quenching out the fire, the men got up(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sarah Keane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloneen, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Miss Annie Noonan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Cloneen, Co. Tipperary