School: Walterstown (roll number 10356)
- Location:
- Walterstown, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Proinseas, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0686, Page 214
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- The Miss Bulters gave out food to the poor. They gave meal and tea to them two days a week. These ladies would be aunts to Dick Butler, the last owner of Staffordstown. Dick Butler sold his place and Johnny Rowntree bought it and is now the present owner of the place.Dinners:- In Fairland they used to give dinners every day to the poor. They gave them potatoes and flummery.
- In Penal Days they cut down half the hills of the country and wheeled them away in barrows. They would drain land too. Wages were "four pence" a day. It was a great tradesman that got a "shilling" a day. That was how they got all the big buildings up. They paid the people nothing for their work.
- Old Tom Kennedy's father, was called "Cearneen". Tom Kennedy (R.I.P.) is not long dead. Cearneen was so called becaue of a grin he always had. Well he was a great thatcher. He'd work all day at the thatching and then go down to County Louth that night. He would walk(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary B. Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Monktown, Co. na Mí
- Informant
- James Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farm-labourer
- Address
- Follistown, Co. na Mí
