School: Ringville, Slieverue (roll number 6621)
- Location:
- Tigh na Rinne, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Síle de Paor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0845, Page 073
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Long ago in Ireland there were very few house. Cattle were grazing in the fields. Every evening the cows came home to be milked. The first of the cows wound her way across the grass. The others followed in her track. In this way a beaten track was made. When men went out to work they went by the path which the animals had made, and so it grew wide.
Stones were thrown to make it dry and clean. The cow-path grew into a road.
By and by, the fields were divided up, and the twisting road was made the boundry. Houses were built beside it on both sides. The houses grew into a(continues on next page)
