School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Durlas Éile (roll number 4068)
- Location:
- Thurles, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. Albert
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0553, Page 023
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- The Colemans lived in a little house of a curiously mixed appearance one end of it an old, old tatched cottage with tiny windows, the other end a slated house. There were many children in it and not much to give them, or to provide comfort for an old woman. Mrs Coleman told her nurse Margaret Mulcorry about an old woman who came in to rest one day to her cottage. She was a wise old woman well known in the district. She sat by the fire for an hour and told Mrs Colemans fortune. When she was leaving to resume her journey. "Theres treasure in this house" she said(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisheen, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Miss Mary Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 20
- Address
- Lisheen, Co. Tipperary
