School: Clara (2)
- Location:
- Clara, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thomáis
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- (continued from previous page)them after the plough. We store them in pits; we put clay and straw and stalks over them. We do not store them in lofts. We dig the potatoes in the garden. After a few months we bring them into he barn and put them on the floor and the potatoes are turned after a few weeks. We eat the potatoes and when they are nearly all gone we clean out the barn.About a killing
Mr Lowe of the Parks went out into his own field. And when he went out he found a dead woman and he got a shock and he wasn't the better of it for a long time. It happened about seventeen years ago. The girl's name was Fahy and the man's name was Fitz Simons. But he was not fined for doing it.
- Collector
- Francis Griffith
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonshanny, Co. Offaly
