School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Stormanstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 114
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- In former times a tramp named Thornton, who used to visit this district, made the following poem,-
One harvest day I truly say
Two women stout and strong,
To illuminate each other's fate,
Let loose their slanderous tongue,
Nancy the Bread she was in dread,
Her spirits they were down,
But still she drew the precious blood
From noble Kitty Brown
Bridie Kierney, Roseybrook, Ardee.
- Collector
- Bridie Kearney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Roseybrook, Co. Louth
- Rooneys and Teelings are the best known around here. Teelings come on the evening before fairs and races. They drive to them in vans drawn by a pony. Sometimes they get very drunk before coming back and start fighting with other travellers and often get badly cut.
Rooneys are more(continues on next page) - Collector
- Alice Halpenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stormanstown, Co. Louth
