School: St Patricks Convent, Kilkenny (roll number 10478)
- Location:
- Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. M. Dominic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0855, Page 265
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- (continued from previous page)been traveling for the past twenty-five years back and forth. They stay for at least three nights in town. They stay in a farmers house and they cook their own meals on an oil stove. They leave their horses in a barn and sleep in a bedroom which the farmer has all prepared for them. All those travelers are very welcome because they put a bit of light in the town when they come. We all joyfully look forward to the month of August. Some of them often visit the town on a fair day to buy horses. Long ago when they visited the town they built a bonfire on"Tom Dorens Hill" and the people of the district gathered round them(continues on next page)
