School: Rear Cross, Newport (roll number 12124)
- Location:
- Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pilib Ó Muireadhaigh
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- (continued from previous page)halfpenny for the week. He then gave him a half a glass of whiskey and he said "Although I am giving you this I know it is a nail in your coffin". "By gor mister," said Matt "when you have the hammer in your hand at all it is as good for you to drive another nail"Maggie Deere, Baurnadowneeny, Rear Cross, Newport, Co. TipperaryMatt Nolan, Baurnadowneeny, Rear Cross, Newport, Co. Tipperary
- There was a servant boy working in a certain house around here one time by the name of William Kearney. He was living in the town land of Rear Cross, parish of Kilcommon, Co. Tipperary. The woman of the house where he was working used only leave him down a small bit of butter for each meal. One morning she gave him an egg to eat and it was boiled very hard. He took one little bit out of the egg and then filled the rest up with butter. The woman of the house said to him "I believe your egg is boiled very hard". "Oh It is all right mam", said he , "I can soften it with butter". The next morning the woman of the house made sure not to boil his egg hard, so she just left down the egg boiling for half a minute and then lifted it up to him. He just took(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Carey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- John Carey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
