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- Suíomh:
- Carrick, Co. Tipperary
- Múinteoir: Eamonn de Búrca
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“In the year 1914 he went to 'turn' a pit of potatoes covered with scraws and straw.”
Addres - P Ryan, Barbaha, Ballywilliam Nenagh
Aois 70
Mrs Pat Ryan Barbaha (uncle of writer) tells the following.In the year 1914 he went to "turn" a pit of potatoes covered with "scraws and straw. The dog Shep (a sheepdog) accompanied him to the field which adjoined the haggard. The intervening ditch had a row of ash trees of 20 years growth or so.When turning the potatoes he found a goose-egg among them. Knowing it was there for "no good purpose" he came to the house and told his sister Mary. He said he would bring it in and burn it and let off the ashes in the river as "Gregan had done with a loaf of bread that was cut in two with blood in the middle that he found in his potatoes". Mary, his sister told him not to bring the egg into the house but to burn it outside. He got a flagstone and some dry twigs and straw - the stone to hold the ashes and the others to burn the egg.
It was a calm mild day in early Spring.
Having set the fire he put a match to the straw. As it blazed a great gust of wind came around and as he says "he(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)- Faisnéiseoir
- Mr Pat Ryan
- Gaol
- Duine gaolta (nach tuismitheoir ná seantuismitheoir)
- Inscne
- Fireann
- Aois
- 70
- Seoladh
- Barbaha, Co. Tipperary