School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)
- Location:
- Dysart, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Ailpín
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- (continued from previous page)at ten o' clock in the morning and be home at two o' clock.
- My aunt's mother used to walk from her own house in the Mountains to Drogheda at about two o' clock, a distance of ten miles, each way.
She also walked from from her own house to Co. Monaghan, and home the same night, a distance of twenty miles each was. - Informant
- Mrs Cruickshank
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mountaintown, Co. Louth
- A Great disaster occured about fifty years ago in Port in this parish.
It was a ship load of cocoanut that was going to Dundalk, and a great storm arose, and the ship went down.
All the cocoanuts came floating in, and the people brought them home and made noggins(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mrs Cruickshank
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mountaintown, Co. Louth
