School: Caroreigh (roll number 6700)
- Location:
- Carrowreagh, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamas Ó Cellaigh
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- In olden times , the only way that the people had to know anything, that was happening in any other district, was by the travelling folk. They would always stay a couple of nights in every district, and tell everything they heard since the last visit.
A woman named Peg Sullivan came always to our house.
In the day time she always had the cat on her lap and she would be saying(continues on next page)