School: Dúndroma (roll number 13818)
- Location:
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mrs Ester Jackson
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- (continued from previous page)floor, and often it was kneeling the pupils would be instead of sitting around the fire.
When play time was over some of the boys used to stay kicking a football and the girls dancing. Some supplied the music by humming tunes.
One day a boy was chastised for staying out late. He said to the master,
"It will be many a day until you see me here again." We must only do without you, Michael, "replied the master.
- Collector
- Hilda Howard
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballintemple, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- John Howard
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballintemple, Co. Tipperary
