School: Westland (roll number 8428)
- Location:
- Donore, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Mrs. E. J. Roberts
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- (continued from previous page)He went to America and he started a dancing class there and he taught dancing and prospered very well.
Patrick Maguire, Kilmainham Wood, Co. Meath, now seventy three years of age is a great dancer. He danced a hornpipe and a jig on the first Sunday of August at St Patrick's well, Diana, Co Meath. He was a great dancer from his youth.
A man named Bartholomew Cassidy who lived in Killfannon, Kilmainham Wood, Co. Meath was a great story-teller. One night he had a dream, he dreamed that he died and went to purgatory. He had his guardian angel with him. In purgatory he saw different kinds of spirits, some suffering and some content. He saw a neighbour of his Biddy Tom-mhór, who had been dead a long time, fly up to Heaven her clothes became very, very, white(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Olive Mc Whirter
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumlayne, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mr W. Mc Whirter
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cormeen, Co. Meath
