School: Adare Convent (roll number 9296)
- Location:
- Adare, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Mechtildes
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0505, Page 009
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- (continued from previous page)she was never without a few pigs for sale too. I often heard my Grandmother talk about her. One day a man came to her and said "I will give you 50/= for that pig". "No", she said, "I won't give it to you for a penny less than £2-10-0".There were also many stalls there for the sale of home-made jam, cake, buns, cooked fish and also dairy produce. A platform used to be erected and many girls from the school used to sing on it. The one who would sing the most songs would get a cock and a hen as a prize.
Got by Pauline McCarthy, Demesne, Adare. From Kate Houlihan (great,grand-aunt), Adare, who died 1937 aged 93 years.
- Not far from Croagh Church on the south side of the road are the remains of an old holy well. It is almost closed up(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Con Normoyle
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Rower More, Co. Limerick
