School: Bansha (B.) (roll number 11964)
- Location:
- Bansha, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Peter Horgan
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“It was a beautiful summer evening and, taking out my bicycle, I went for a spin through the Glen of Aherlow.”
(continued from previous page)level now tumbling over rocks, here and there clumps of red and white fox-gloves, ferns of every discription peeping out of nooks patches of red green and yellow moss, and as far as the eye could see, a glorious sea of bell heather.From where I sat I could see the Aherlow, winding in and out past lonely farm-houses, and the ruins of Ashes Castle, like a lonely sentinel of the days that are gone, dwarfed by the towering Galtees. Down the mountain came "Moll-na-Onseach"."God save you Moll" said I.
"God save you kindly" she answered.After chatting awhile I asked, "Will you tell me why do they call you Moll the Onseach""Wisha I'll tell you" and she smiled."I was always a big old fool and at everybody's beck and call and my grandfather who was a blacksmith used to say,"Moll you are a right Onseach, making a penny boy of yourself for everybody, and from that(continues on next page)- Collector
- Thomas Fuller
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- William Lukeman
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Bansha, Co. Tipperary