School: Corbally, Roscrea (roll number 7736)
- Location:
- Corville, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire, Bean de Brún
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- (continued from previous page)thatch to make it firm.
This completes his job. The thatched roof lasts for about five years.
- In Whites' of Charleville they got a new maid. She was a kind of a rough girl.
One day some visitors came to Whites and their names were Browne's. The maid answered the door. She asked the visitors, whom would she tell the mistress was at the door. One of them told her to say Mr. Browne, Mrs. and Miss Browne. Mrs. White was engaged upstairs. The girl told her Mr. Mrs. and Miss Browne wanted to see her.
Mrs. White said that she need not say it that way again. She should say the Browne family. In about a week after people came by the name of Penny. The man told the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Madge Heenan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Benamore, Co. Tipperary
