School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0507, Page 403
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“Eels, I learn from various sources formed a staple part of the diet of the country people in this district up to about forty years ago.”
(continued from previous page)generally a shilling.Those Camogue eels used be sold, as to their greater number, at the bottom of High St., near the Old Market in Limerick City, the numbers hawked in Croom, being an inconsiderable fraction of the take. The number of eels in recent seasons, in evidence in the two rivers mentioned is totally insignificant when compared with the numbers which used to be taken in other years. This fact has been often discussed and debated with me by people interested in the (vanishing) eel population
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“Would you believe that I gave up fishing a rising trout today to watch what I never before saw, a king-fisher stalking its prey.”
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