School: Walterstown (roll number 10356)

Location:
Walterstown, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Proinseas, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0686, Page 134

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    Where I live now there once lived people of the name of Wilsons.

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    house and left the Wilson's with the house and the twenty-one acres.
    Given by
    P. Reilly
    Walterstown
    Garlow Cross
    Written by
    Clare Browne
    Proudstown
    Tara
    6th May 1938 A.D.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Up Donnelly's Lane there is a shed.

    Up Donnelly's Lane there is a shed. At the side of this shed there was a school long ago. Bits of the walls are still to be seen.
    Cure for Wildfire. Take the ashes from the lid of a pipe and rub it to the wildfire. this is a cure for wildfire.
    Written by
    Florence Kavanagh
    Walterstown,
    Garlow Cross,
    Navan
    Given by
    Thomas Donnelly (a working man)
    Walterstown,
    Garlow Cross,
    Navan
    22nd March 1938, A.D.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  3. Signs
    If you bring May into the house before the month of May the people in that house will have bad luck.
    If you break a mirror you will have seven years bad luck.
    If you let a knife fall there is a visitor coming to that house.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Florence Kavanagh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Walterstown, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Mr C. Kavanagh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Walterstown, Co. Meath