School: Tashinny, Colehill (roll number 10223)
- Location:
- Taghshinny, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Annie Trimble
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 20A
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- (continued from previous page)and black ones out and the good ones are put in a pit for winter use. The small ones and black are used for feeding pigs during winter. There are different sorts of potatoes such as Black Champions, White Champions, Kerry Pinks, Up-to-dates, Arran Banners, Kerry blues, irish Queens, Brittich Queens, Defy the blight, Butes Epicures and M men.
- Forths (cont'd from previous page)
in the new cottage. He told us also that one night he went up to his bedroom to listen and he told us that night he heard something like a chime clock in his room. He stayed in his room for a quarter of an hour, and it did not strike. My father built this house and he told us when he was digging the foundation a man's skull. A neighbour of ours told us he was passing by it one night and he saw a man dressed in white walking across the road. - Collector
- Georgina Burnett
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Deerpark, Co. Longford
