School: Tyrrellspass (2) (roll number 13743)
- Location:
- Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Payne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0731, Page 191
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- (continued from previous page)in Guilford & he used to send down turnips to his cattle & sheep. All the people from Cloneyhague to come out of the bog & get a couple of turnips & bring them home & boil them & put pollard along with them & made bread out of them.The present Jack Payne's father gave the poor meal & porridge out in Tyrrellspass during the famine. This meal came from foreign countries to the poor starving people of Ireland.
- A Garage
A garage is a place where men work at motor cars & lorries & other sorts of machinery. Nearly all garages are very large so that they have plenty of room to work in, store cars, get in cars for repairs& have room to put their own car, because practically them all have a couple of cars for hire. Garages are built on main roads in towns & villages. You will always know a garage when you are passing because you will see the petrol pumps out side. all well equipped garages that are on a branch of the Shannon scheme have a pump worked(continues on next page) - Collector
- Alan Hodgins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Dalystown, Co. Westmeath
