School: Cill an Charnáin (roll number 11443)
- Location:
- Killycarnan North, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mrs Meehan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 068
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- (continued from previous page)and from it the nightly meal was eaten. The Piggin was a size larger than the noggin.
- Prunty and Billy and Cooley of renown,
Mc Gonnell and Sicily in the middle of the town.
There was Roddelty and Culla and Ritty of fame.
And stuttering Paddna at the head of the lane.
There was Whitechat and Broghlum and Cunninngham too,
And auld Peter Murragh in waistcoat so blue. - This was used by the grandames in preparing their frilled Sunday caps. It stood on a circular base of wire and the cavity for the hot iron was cylinde-shaped, as wide as a thimble and about a finger's length.
