School: Tullogher, Ros Mhic Treoin (roll number 14648)
- Location:
- Tullagher, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Mrs Winnie Murphy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0846, Page 432
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- (continued from previous page)seemed to be soldiers were around her bed one night. When asked what business took him to the girl's room at night he became confused: so seemingly the girl needed the protection of the Angels.
- continued from p. 128
A child was called "Bradach" if mischievous (in Co. Sligo) and here in Kilkenny a cow is called "braddy" if she is constantly getting into a field or corn etc., and so doing mischief: it must be Bradach is meant.
I often heard my grandmother call one of us when children "Graithe gan iarraidh" for interfering with things not our own, or for doing a thing we hadn't been asked to do. Another expression - used of grown up people too fond of giving advice to others was that they were too fond of putting in their "Ladair (speech or opinion) gan fheadar gan iarraidh,"
