School: Ringville, Slieverue (roll number 6621)
- Location:
- Ringville, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Síle de Paor
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- (continued from previous page)water that cools his irons finds himself refreshed and made stronger.
- Long ago in Ireland there were very few house. Cattle were grazing in the fields. Every evening the cows came home to be milked. The first of the cows wound her way across the grass. The others followed in her track. In this way a beaten track was made. When men went out to work they went by the path which the animals had made, and so it grew wide.
Stones were thrown to make it dry and clean. The cow-path grew into a road.
By and by, the fields were divided up, and the twisting road was made the boundry. Houses were built beside it on both sides. The houses grew into a(continues on next page)- Collector
- Margaret Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinlaw, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Walter Hennebry
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 76
- Address
- Ballinlaw, Co. Kilkenny