School: Inistioge (B.) (roll number 1916)
- Location:
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máirtín Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0859, Page 173
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- (continued from previous page)sown in ridges. The food which substituted the potatoes was turnips and yellow meal.
The people of Graigue were dying of fever. A man named Chuck Mulrooney was engaged in burying the dead. He went to bury a poor woman but she said she was not dead but he said "chuck her in who knows better than the doctor."
- First make three holes in a straight line, each hole about three feet apart. Then draw a line across about three feet from the first hole which is called home. The players fire from home and the person whose marble is nearest gets first shot and so on in order. The players start again. Then go up and down the holes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Edward Cody
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr M. Cody
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
