School: Killmallock Convent School
- Location:
- Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Dimpna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0528, Page 240
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- (continued from previous page)another way and hoped and prayed that Paud would be a their heels, but it took him a while to recover and just at the stroke of twelve he came to the kitchen door which the [?] had wide open for him, and down he flopped on the threshold. The father and sisters came to see what was up, and they got a terrible fright to be sure! They called him by his name threw cold water on his face and as the father called out: "Go for the priest" the colour into the cheeks of Paud, the night walker. "I'll have him married to a moneyed woman before the month is out" shouted old Pat, and young Pat made an attempt to laugh. So it happened that June saw a nice young woman from Ballintubber, keeping the house for Paudín.
"A man's happiness or his misery is in a great measure places is in his own hands," said the wise old man on the wedding day of his only son, Paudín Óg.
- Collector
- Nora Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fairyfield Glebe, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- James Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Elton, Co. Limerick
