School: Rathún (Clochar) (roll number 1013)
- Location:
- Rahoon, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Mac Suibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0030, Page 453
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“There was a respectable family lives in the county Roscommon who owned a large property.”
There was a respectable family lives in the county Roscommon who owned a large property. There were three brothers, and a sister who married the herd. After the marriage they removed to a different farm in another county county. They lived there for some years and had a family of two boys and a girl. After some time the lady dies and her brothers decided to take the three children who they reared. In due time when those two boys and girl frew up one boy became full manager for his uncle who was a solicitor and spent nearly all of his time in Dublin. This gentleman married a Dublin lady. This lady made different rules and sent the nephews to eat in the kitchen with the result of the two nephews went up to Kildare where they were engaged as reapers. When the Kildare boys heard that there Connaught men employed they said they would(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Kilmartin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 10
- Address
- Shantallow, Co. Galway