School: Walterstown (roll number 10356)

Location:
Walterstown, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Proinseas, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0686, Page 228

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  1. Old Custom
    Two or three stone of potatoes were boiled each night and the neighbours would gather in and sit round. The pot was teemed through a sally-rod basket and the basket was placed in the middle of the floor. They'd eat the potatoes with salt and pepper and they'd drink buttermilk out of noggins, with them. They'd sup a round out of the noggins. You'd take a drink now and then another and so on.
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    Tommy Kieramh atacked to take away "Saddle Hill".

    Tommy Kieran's attacked to take away "Saddle Hill". He took a few sods out of it when he had to stop. He got burley-footed, he'd kick the ankles out of himself when trying to walk. The sods were back in their places the next morning.
    Jane Muldoon
    Opposite where Jim Clinch of the Deerpark is now living, there's the mark of a house. There Jimmy Reynolds lived at one time during his youth. His mother (R.I.P.) used to pay 1/- a week for the rent of it to the Roodle Farrelly. The "FRoodle" lived up in the old house now in Hantons farm in the Deerpark. This man had a girl working for him called Jane Muldoon. She'd go off with the fairies every year. She'd make straight for "The Moate" and be away for six weeks at a time. She'd come back and then she'd be pale and thin and her eyes
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary B. Kelly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Monktown, Co. Meath
    Informant
    James reynolds
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Farm-labourer
    Address
    Monktown, Co. Meath