School: Headfort
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Miss J.E. Browne
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- A man named Phil Sullivan, some time ago, used to steal dinners out of ovens in the kitchens when the occupants of the house would be in their shops, it was only out of public houses he took the dinners.
One fair day he went into Healy's in Virginia and then into the kitchen. He then took a rabbit pie out of the oven and he went out to the stable to eat it.
The next fair day Mr. Healy got a cat, and skinned it, then he gave it to the maid to make it into a pie. When it was cooked in came Phil and he took it out of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alma Mc Quade
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Harry Mc Quade
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Occupations
- Farmer
- Shopkeeper
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr T. Mc Quade
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
