School: Tappa (roll number 10451)
- Location:
- Tetoppa, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Reachtaire
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- (continued from previous page)without any butter. For the supper they had a pot of oaten porridge. They supped porridge with sugar and water or else butter-milk.
- There are a lot of games. Tig, Round the gree gravel the grass grows green many a lady is fit to be seen. Washed in milk dressed in silk whoes the last pup down.
- There is a mass path from Shanna road to the Cavan Line; that is the road out to the chapel. When the people are going to Mass they have to cross the Dam. The people that owned the Dam thought that they could close the mass path but they would not be let. The people must be travelling that road for a long time for we can see the stones.
- In our district are situated three forts which the people in the neighbourhood hold as haunted. One is situated in the townland of Cordevlish. It is a fort with one ring around it. An old woman lives with her son beside it, and tells that one evening at dusk she was going(continues on next page)
