School: Killuran / Cill Úráin (roll number 14658)

Location:
Killuran, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Thomas Mc Inerney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0588C, Page 08_007

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  1. This is the season for match-making. It is called Shrove time. Once upon a time a man started out with a black-thorn stick in his hand to make a match for his cousin. As he was going along the road, he met a man going on the road and he said "you are just like a man that would be going making a match. O, the very mission I am on. Do you any grown place that would suit me at three hundred pounds."
    "I have him in the heel of my fist for you." So they appointed a day to meet at Limerick or some town
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Peppard
    Gender
    Female