School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 282
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- Collector
- Josie Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigeen, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Carrigeen, Co. Tipperary
- There was a young girl one time named Hanna Maker Parish of Borisoleigh Co Tipperary. One fine evening she dressed herself up in men's clothes. She went looking for cattle with a stick in her hand and a sheep dog named after her along the road, she went in to neighbor's houses asking them if they had ever seen any cattle during the week none of them saw any of the cattle, not one of them knew them. So she perceeded farder she went to the next house asked them did they see any cattle so they did not No one saw them. She went into ten houses and not one of(continues on next page)
