School: Ráth Mhór (B.) (roll number 16987)
- Location:
- Rathmore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Cróinín
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- (continued from previous page)tied with a belt to the wrist of his hand. Every person in the house was afraid of him. He had to get the best bed in the house to sleep on and the best food to eat. Before he left in the morning he said "A woman has twice as much to do to save her soul as a man"
- In olden times in our district a number of poor people resorted the neighbourhood, they slept near the fire in the kitchen in a bed made of hay or straw and whatever clothes they could find. In most cases the people were very kind to them and made them as comfortable as they possibly could.
In our neighbourhood a man named Sullivan Foley went(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mícheál Ó Laoghaire
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Éoin Ó Laoghaire
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathmore, Co. Kerry
