School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máthais Íde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0702, Page 275
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- (continued from previous page)food to the poor in the district.
The daughter of the house was proud and to cure her of her pride her mother made her wait on the beggars in the mess-room.
Each poor person got a 1/4 of a griddle cake. The young lady used to say:-
"There is your share and the devil pull it out of you."
- Two old people lived away by themselves in a lonely part of the country. They had a wicked old donkey and they were afraid of their lives to let him out into the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomena Usher
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
