School: Lios Béalad, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 11715)
- Location:
- Lisbealad, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Héigcearrtaigh
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- (continued from previous page)the voyage. The death rate mounted as high as 200 per day. Then the people ate wheat and other crops and they no longer made the potatoes their chief food.
- The games we play vary during the different seasons of the year.
In summer I find much amusement in a score of bowls with my school mates. On other occasions I enjoy myself at a game of hide and go seek.
In the Autumn time I enjoy myself at nut cracking and blackberry picking. At the former I find much amusement. On Sunday we set out in numbers each anxious to have the most amusement. In the Winter time I enjoy myself at fishing and playing football with the rest of my school friends. - Collector
- Cornelius Tringle
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Timothy Tringle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kippagh, Co. Cork
