Scoil: Cluain Fhiadh (C.), Carraig na Siúire (uimhir rolla 7772)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Travelling Folk (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   there she would remain and they would give her lodging and start her on her journey next morning. She died about forty five years ago.

   Then there was a blind man named John Walsh and he went by the name of Seán Bhfág (?).He was born in this parish at the foot of the Comeragh Mountains about eighty five years ago. His mother was a travelling woman who went by the name of Máire Romhar. When Seán was an infant he got a bad attack of small pox and being neglected it got into his eyes so he tore out his eyes with his hands. He grew to be great big powerful man and worked with the farmers. It is said that he was gifted and about that there was no doubt for he could work as well as anyother man. He worked with a farmer named Kennedy who lived at Kilclooney. Every week he went to Waterford with a horse load of firkins of butter and would guide the horse safely from Kilclooney to Waterford. After delivering his load he would take his horse into a stable and feed him.
   While a young man he learned the fiddle by air and played for the dances at the cross

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Beatrice Walsh

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   13

   Seoladh

   Móin na Meannán, Co. Phort Láirge

   Faisnéiseoir

   Thomas Walsh

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   55

   Seoladh

   Móin na Meannán, Co. Phort Láirge