School: Walterstown (roll number 10356)
- Location:
- Walterstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Proinseas, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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“There was a woman who used to pass through this parish when Jimmy was a young chap.”
(continued from previous page)in Mary Grey's, next door to Jimmy's when he lived in one of the Timber Houses, near Jock's Cross. She'd take no life. Jimmy often heard her at her prayers and she'd say the prayers in Irish. That went on for years. He remembers her well. She was as tall as Mrs. Cash - the Wicklow (?) traveller. She'd be about 6 feet high and had big broad shoulders. Mary Grey, where she put up, was nearly as big more as her.
- Old Saying: -You can't put breeding into an ass' shin.
- Hay - foot-ballA rope was plaited and rolled into a lump for a foot-ball. 23 or 24 were on each side. The two parishes where the teams were picked from, would follow. Sometimes the people off one parish tried to block the players of the opposing parish by crowding in on them. Fellows playing in Ardcath would be heard whistling from there in this parish. Byrne would put his fingers in his mouth - the finger and thumb of one hand or the two forefingers were placed against one another over the tongue, he'd then whistle and no train would be as loud.Written by:-
Mary B. Kelly,
Monktown,
Brownstown,
NavanGiven by:-
James Reynolds
Follistown,
Brownstown,
Navan
(farm labourer)(over 60 years)22 November 1938
