School: Tyrrellspass (2) (roll number 13743)
- Location:
- Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Payne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0731, Page 146
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- (continued from previous page)the hills this is also a sign of fine weather. There are many old men who tell the weather.
- About 60 years ago there lived a man named Jack Toole. He was a weaver. He lived up in Newtown beyond Dunnes house. My great grandmother got her flax weaved with him. He was an Uncle to Joe Geoghegans the lime seller in Tyrrellspass now He used to weave linen He was a good hand at weaving He lived in a little thatched house in Newtown Which is is ruins now He was an Uncle to Larry Farrell, the carpenter who made out cart a year ago at the foot of Gneevebane there lived about the same time another good weaver there Clarkes live now at the mouth of the boreen going down to Jack Husseys
- Collector
- Fred Payne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 10
- Address
- Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mrs W. Payne
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath
