School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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- Collector
- Mary Younge
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Corbett
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary
- Long ago the old men and women were great to walk. They could walk on foot for five miles. Because they had no motorcars or bicycles the people lived in Ileigh. His name was Patrick Ryan.
Pupil's Name: Mary Younge. Killamoyne. Borrisoleigh. Co. Tipp.
Got From: Mrs Corbett. Killamoyne. Borrisoleigh. Co. Tipp. - The adventures of Sean O'Carroll and a boy named Carew from Fialnaclisra[?] Kilcommon. Co. Tipperary. At the time of the truce in 1921 The republican and Free state party had attack at the Cross of Riar[?] in Co Tipperary when this single man named Carew happened to be in company with a few other men(continues on next page)