School: Ballycumber (C.)
- Location:
- Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Mrs Fenelon
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- (continued from previous page)Tinnamuck
- Once upon a time and a very good time it was, when pigs were swine and turkeys chewed tobacco, there dwelt in this locality a well-to-do farmer named Big Jack Feehely. This night Big Jack gave a danec to a "scutching" party. All the yound ladies and gentlemen attended the dance. The prettiest young lady that attended the dance was Katie Monaghan. She was admired by a nice young man with red hair.
Times rolled on and this young man with the red hair died. After a considerable time he returned to Katie Monaghan. He told her hed a a large sum of money for her. "It has been left in my charge and it now lies two feet deept under the earth behind Liss Church. I am leaving(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maggie Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Grogan and Corroe, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Andrew Deehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 86