School: Yellow Furze
- Location:
- Yellow Furze, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Síle, Bean Uí Leamhain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0684, Page 258
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- (continued from previous page)It was taught in Johnstown school by this old teacher long before there was any talk of an Irish Revival.
The following are a few of the travellers who paid frequent visits to this locality about 50 years ago.
The "Priest's Sister" was perhaps the most well known.
She was really a priest's sister who had "come down in the world" through no fault of her own she said herself.
She was a most peculiar person and would not sleep in a house in which there was a male person and when meeting one on the road she would either cross the ditch into the field or cover her face with a cloth which she always carried in her hand for the purpose.
Once about 40 year ago she came into the house of my grandmother and asked her to make a cup of tea for her and while drinking it my grandmother's small son who(continues on next page)
