School: Achadh Bolg (roll number 3588)
- Location:
- Aghabullogue, Co. Cork
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0343, Page 407
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- About sixty years ago an old woman visited a house about three miles from this school. It was a very cold winters night when the snow was on the ground. On entering the house she asked for something to eat. The woman of the house was a hospitable person and she took the old lady in and gave her a good supper. When supper was over the old woman asked for lodgings for the night but was told she could not be kept as there was a big family. She then asked for whiskey but was refused. She asked for flour, meal, milk and potatoes but got nothing. When these things were refused her, she(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromatimore, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Daniel O' Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghavrin, Co. Cork
