School: Cill Chais, Cluain Meala (roll number 596)
- Location:
- Kilcash, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Dubhghail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0568, Page 255
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- (continued from previous page)to try and feed the hungry people, and to bury the dead. A trap coffin was used for it could be used over and over again.
C. Ní Mhainnín
- The people in the valley south of Kilcash village have an old saying re the mountaining folk i.e.
"Chaff anad dry oats for the mountaining goats". while the people living on the mountains retaliate to the valley people with "Potatoes and sprats for the lowland rats".
