School: Ceapach Chuinn (B.) (roll number 1936)
- Location:
- Cappoquin, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Laoghaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0637, Page 26
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“There lived in Melleray a boy named Paddy Brien. He had a very bad habit of going to the neighbours' houses and staying there until very late.”
(continued from previous page)died when they were young.
- On the Keane estate near Cappoquin during the season when the game-birds were nesting, the tenants were forbidden to drive cattle or cars or to make any noise on the roads because the birds would be disturbed and the landlord and his friends deprived of their sport.
This law was very cruel and the tenants often lost large sums of money because they could not bring their stock to the fairs to sell them. They were also prevented from bringing turf from the bog. If the tenants defied the landlord they were evicted.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Carl O' Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Michael Walsh
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Tim O' Brien
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Camphire, Co. Waterford
