School: Baltrasna (roll number 4086)
- Location:
- Baltrasna, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shuibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 370
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- (continued from previous page)if you do that you will not get a bad sickness in that year. People say that if you get up and see the sun rising people say it dances on Easter Sunday.Written by Eithne Kearney Baltrasna Oldcastle Co meathAged 12 years
- Football matchThe following story happened about eighty years ago. A football match was played between Meath and Cavan. It was a very good match and when it was all over and Meath had won the game the Meath team asked the Cavan team would anyone of them fight one of the Meath men, so the Cavan men said they would fight for £10 and the Meath agreed but the Cavan team had no big man, so at last one of the Cavan men said that he had three brothers and one of them was a kind of silly and in the middle of a game he would lie down and say(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eithne Kearney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Baltrasna, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Harry Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 33
- Address
- Baltrasna, Co. Meath
