School: Fedamore (B.) (roll number 14068)
- Location:
- Fedamore, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Martin Moloney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0517, Page 214
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- Biddy Earlie Told by Margaret Keogh
Castlequarter
Kilallock
Co.Limerick
Age 64
There was another man and there were three boxes of his butter stolen long ago and he went to Biddy Earlie to find out who stole it then and took her a quart of whiskey and when she saw him coming “I suppose you are coming about your butter go home now as quick as ever you can hid below near the river in the middle of the felestrums.I am afraid it will be gone before you reach home and twos your own cousins that stole it. He came as quick as ever he could and twos gone and he saw the markers of the boxes in the very place she said. Written by Padraig Mac Eocada
- Collector
- Pádraig Mac Eocada
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Marget Keogh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Castlequarter, Co. Limerick
- Biddy Earlie
Told by Edmond Houlihan Aged 78 yrs
Meanus
Bruff
Co LimerickThere was an old woman who lived in Glenogra and she had a shop in a(continues on next page) - Collector
- James Toomey
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Edmond Houlihan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Meanus, Co. Limerick
