School: An Chathair Gharbh (roll number 13896)
- Location:
- Cahergarriff, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Criostóir Ó Dubhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 331
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- (continued from previous page)view of the whole parish, and stay there for three hours praying, and then go home to bed. In the time of the famine they went to America and their mother was long dead. The three sons became priests and the father joined a religious order. The field is owned by my father, and a good crop was always produced by it.A man lived in the time of the famine and he was very holy. He used to say his rosary every morning driving the cows. If he met a child he would always tell him a funny story which always ended with an advice. He used to have his rosary finished on reaching a certain spot.
- The old people tell us that any person who lived in the time of the famine never used money on things which they could get along without. An old woman who lived in the time of the famine, saved every penny(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Súilleabháin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Fuhur, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Ellen Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
