School: Ballyhurst, Tipperary (roll number 4562)
- Location:
- Baile Hoiste, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Stás, Bean Uí Fhloinn
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- (continued from previous page)hight as the yard. The crickets are singing every night behind the fire.
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- Collector
- May Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Camaí, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Mrs Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Camaí, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- At the back of our house there was an old house which was built of clay and rushes mixed. The fire was in a side wall near the bed room and the chimney was made
of an old churn. There was a bed near the fire which was called a press bed. It was thatched with sallies and straw. The ruins of it are still there. There(continues on next page)
