School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 245
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- (continued from previous page)master sat in the kitchen and taught all the children to read and spell and also to write. His wife used to teach the girls in the room how to sew and knit stockings and cut out shirts and make them. Ann was a great hand at cutting out garments and making them. She used to measure by finger lengths and nails as that is how she was taught. Her people were very rich at one time and they owned all the land round. Ann died in 1930 and she was about ninety years old.
- With Ann Kilmartin was buried enough Folk Lore to fill two books. She along with her cousin Tom Kilmartin (also dead) and James Mc Manus were the people consulted about the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brendan Molloy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Ann Kilmartin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Creevagh, Co. Offaly
