School: Brittas (roll number 12217)
- Location:
- Brittas, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: B. Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0794, Page 475
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- The name of my townland is Sandybanks, and it got it's name from the great banks of sand which are there.
The houses are not thatched, as most of them are slated or tin roofs on them.
There are not many old people in my townland, and any who are alive do not speak Irish.
There are many wood's in my townland, and it it very easy to get fire-wood, and there are also many streams and we have of water.
There are only four families in the localty and there are only a few people in it altogether.
In Autumn when the trees turn brown, and yellow in the woods it is beautiful, to walk through the woods, and it makes the townland more nicer than what it is.
- Collector
- Áine Ní hAnlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brittas, Co. Dublin
- When you are old and cannot see put on your specks and think of me.
It is a bad thing to be like a dog in a manger not to want the thing and won't anyone let anyone else have it.
It is a sure saying have the thing yourself or do without it.
