School: Srónaill (Shronell) (roll number 15008)
- Location:
- Shronell, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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- (continued from previous page)had a farm in England and he sold it for a lot of money and he left England and came to live in Ireland and the soldiers that got land and did not want it would sell it cheap he would sell a thousand acres for a hundred pounds and Joseph Damer bought all the land that was selling cheap and he was putting in tenants and he would charge them two pounds a year after only paying 6/- for it.
- Liam Dall's mother died in the year 1717 when Liam was only 7 years she was a woman of the Hanly's who lived at Bothereen Buidhe Bridge so after she dying he went to live at Bothereen Buidhe Bridge with his mother's people and the house they lived in was called "The Poet's House" and the field was called "The Poets field" he was living there for a year when his father got married the second time and Liam had to leave his mothers people and had to go and live with his father and stepmother opposite the White gate when he was eight years of age he was blind from birth but he was not completely blind when he was young. In the same that he was living in there was hedge school Known as "Lattin Hedge School" and there was a very famous man by the name of Valentine Roche and for the next 15 years of his life he went to school and Valentine Roche was able to play the fiddle and he thought Liam how to play the fiddle and Liam became a great Fiddler and a great singer(continues on next page)
