School: Yellow Furze

Location:
Yellow Furze, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Síle, Bean Uí Leamhain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0684, Page 260

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    they always found good friends in the people of Yellow Furze.
    Mathew Creegan was very popular in the locality and the children looked forward to his visit as he had a great sense of humour and was never happy except while amusing children by his with.
    "Black Jo" was a more recent one and he died about 16 years ago in the Trim Home.
    Phelim McGuiness was a most remarkable traveller and people said that he was a schoolmaster about 80 years ago and there must be some truth in this for he was seen several times with a cane and book in his hands teaching and slapping the bushes generally along the Priest's Road and he said himself that this very old road was his favourite one in Ireland
    "Jack Byrne" was to be seen in the district very often and was a close relative of Simon Byrne who was about
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