School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0858B, Page 07_044
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- Every one in this wide world has various ways for making his living.
Some of those people were poets. Poets are people who are able to put poetry or rhymes together, and sometimes gain a lot of money by it.
There was an old man living in Dunnamaggin about ten years ago, named Patrick Peters, and he was very skilled in making poetry.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire de Paor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr John Marnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Dunnamaggan, Co. Kilkenny
