School: Redwood (roll number 11912)
- Location:
- Redwood, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máighréad Nic Chormaic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 184
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- (continued from previous page)The Pheasant Garden: is a small square field railed in, and where the game-keeper kept pheasants for the Land-lord. In the Spring the game-keeper got about 30 broody hens placed each in a separate coop and put a dozen eggs under each hen. The young birds were fed carefully for about four months. Then they were let round the groves. In November about 20 guns collected and the shooting party went round and about 300 pheasants were shot.
Grange: Hundreds of acres of furze, which were stubbed and divided among four or five farmers. It is infested with rabbits and for years Rabbit-Trappers have come to weed them out.
An ancient graveyard is supposed to be at the summit of Grange Hill but it is over thirty years since the last person was interred there. This was a woman from Co. Galway who had died of fever.(continues on next page)
