School: Srónaill (Shronell) (roll number 15008)

Location:
Shronell, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0580, Page 227

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  3. XML “Signs of the Weather”
  4. XML “Local Singer”
  5. XML “A Great Fire”

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    before or after a shower.
    When the sheep are on the top of the hill it is a sign of good weather and when the swallows are flying very low it is a sign of bad weather
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  2. There is one singer in Lattin North called Seamus Daly he composes his own songs and puts his own air to them and a fine one too he sits by the fire every night and makes up his song. Billy orchard used sing nice songs.
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  3. Once the strong boys of Shronell gathered at the cross. This was the time of the general election. About 200 of them went up to set fire to the furzes. Some of them were Nashes more were Ryans and Hayes they had one barrel of tar and a bucket of oil that they stole from the County Council it took them one hour to get the barrel of tar up to the furs, and get the place ready. They had to go down to Nashes for matches the furzes were wet and could not lit.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    3. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maurice Keane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lattin, Co. Tipperary