School: Lisdowney, Ballyragget
- Location:
- Lisdowney, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mheachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0868, Page 115
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- There is a man in this district whose name is Martin Hanlon. One day he went into a house in Gatabawn and the woman asked him would he eat an egg and he said he knew a man who ate two and they did not kill him. Then the woman asked him to stop and work with her for a week but he said he would not because she had the horse's collar hanging where the bacon should be.
- In the year 1905 a terrible sickness occurred in Aharney House Ballyragget Co. Kilkenny. The name of this sickness was diptheria and two members of the Marum family a boy and girl got it very badly. They both died during the one week.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josie Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisdowney, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballykealy, Co. Laois
