School: Inis Mac ón Tír (roll number 12854)
- Location:
- Inis Mhic an Trír, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Muireann Bean Uí Chuinneagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0065, Page 140
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- Jack Egan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Castletown, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Peter Egan
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- Parent
- Gender
- Male
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“Sílim go gcluisim fuinn ui buille maide Frank ag aonach bfuinnsinig.”
"Sílim go cluism fuinn ui buille maide Frank ag aonach bfuinnsinig"An old woman who lived long ago in Creeva between Cong and the Neal was standing on the top of a hill knitting, when she used these words. Her son Frank was at the Fair of Funchora (?) about two miles away.
"Tá sé an do dhéug a chlog agus gan buille buail fos"At the fair there were faction fights. On this occasion an old man becoming impatient rushed out of a tent brandishing his black thorn and shouted these words
