School: Baile Uaitéir (Walterstown) (roll number 12281)
- Location:
- Walterstown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Raghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0386, Page 178
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- The only local poet of any note, was a man by the name of Patrick Coakley locally known as "Pats". He lived at Ballydulea cottages, about thirty years ago. He used to compose his poems in English. The writer is of opinion that his poems are still in printed form in a cottage in the vicinity of Cobh. Many of the subjects of his poems concerned, Cuskinny, Bennet's Court, and Tuberloneen.
- Collector
- Margaret Wilson
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Wilson
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Walterstown, Co. Cork
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“There were people by the name of Penrose living in Belgrove.”
There were people by the name of Penrose living in Belgrove. A boy was crossing the fields to the Station. He had the priest's vestments with him. When the man Penrose saw the boy crossing the field he asked him where he was going.
The boy told him, and the man(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mrs Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- Over 80
- Address
- Ballymore, Co. Cork