School: Currach Chluana (Croughclooney) (roll number 7885)
- Location:
- Curraghcloney, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Fhloinn
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A long time ago there lived near Ballinamult a family called Whelan. Rodger Whelan had only two children a boy and a girl and his wife.
One day while he was out in the haggard thatching a stack of straw himself and his wife. They were working so busy that he had his waistcoat left down beside a hay stack. In the coat were matches and tobacco.
In the meantime the two children came along and got the matches and put fire on a haystack which was quiet near the dwelling-house, when they saw the hay on fire they ran to the nearest village of Priestown for the neighbours.
When they arrived the dwelling-house(continues on next page)
