School: Clochar na Trócaire, An tSráidbhaile (roll number 13020)
- Location:
- Stradbally, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: An tSr. Ióseph
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0649, Page 58
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- (continued from previous page)my grandmother's - grandmother when she would come round. She used to carry a little basket in her arm. One night she was spinning in some house and while she was spinning she got sick so she went away then and she came to my great - great - grandmother, so they knew there that she was dying. They drove her up to Mrs Dalton as she had nobody living with her, and she took her in. During the night she got very bad and they sent for the priest and he prepared her for death. He left her a few shillings to get nourishment as he thought she was very poor. She died a few hours after the priest going. When a few of the neighbouring women had laid her out they went to look at her basket, and one of them found a big ball of grey wool. They were all looking at(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Dunford
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Corbett
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stradbally More, Co. Waterford
