School: Clochar na Trócaire, An tSráidbhaile (roll number 13020)

Location:
Stradbally, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
An tSr. Ióseph
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  1. Local Story.
    Long ago a family lived in this village named Power, which consisted of four men and two girls. Wherever one brother went the other three went also. They were always known as the "Paoracs", and they were very ignorant because they never went to school. They did not know what a clock or a watch was.
    One day as the three of them were going down by Woodhouse they found a lovely gold watch but they did not know what it was. One of them took it up and when he heard it ticking he
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    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    2. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Walsh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Stradbally More, Co. Waterford
    Informant
    Edmond Walsh
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male