School: Tíréaltan, Maghcromtha (roll number 13286)
- Location:
- Tír Eiltín, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)nose of the plough to keep it sunk down in the ground: another to hold the plough and another with the spade to turn anything the plough would not turn.
Tadg had four sons and when the fourth was born he said "I have the full team now. I have a plough-boy, a cow-boy, a paddleman and a driver." The paddle man was the fellow who had to lie on the nose of the plough.
Nora-na-Té derived her name from her love of the beverage.
Morning, noon, and night the kettle was hanging on the crook over the fire and she drank tea at least twenty times a day. Tadg hated such extravagance and one day planned with his son Jimín to put a stop to it. A big rock stood at the end of the little house in which they lived, overlooking its chimney. Tadg and Jimín got a long piece of strong wire and turned a hook in the end of it. They stood on the rock and let it down the chimney. Poor Norah was sitting(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Daniel Burns
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Burns
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Tír Eiltín, Co. Chorcaí
