School: Clochar na Toirbhirte (roll number 969)
- Location:
- Wexford, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: An tSr. Bearnard
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0880, Page 151
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- (continued from previous page)of non-Catholic families still in the barony.A harvest festival was held - known as "Plough Meat". They were very industrious and tidy. Some thirty or forty of the working class riding on horseback to the hunting match. Lady Wilde desribes the people as:-"handsome physique, oval face. Roman nose, noble outline, dark eyes - the neatest most orderly, finest and handsomest peasantry in Ireland".Some traces of the old dialect still - angish - not very well
chye of potatoes - indefinite quantity
a kind "dull" - mentally afflicted
tape or upset a car:
his to bringing today;
" after gone.They retain also the stolidty of the English and are not easily aroused to enthusiasm.Formerly in all the Churches in the Baronies - pecualiar Carols were sung by tradional singers. The custom is now confined to Kilmore parish. Dr Grattan Flood held that these Christmas carols were composed(continues on next page)
