School: Rathowen (B) (roll number 5101)
- Location:
- Ráth Eoghain, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: T. Mc Garry
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- (continued from previous page)brought in a pail of cream and laid it down and called the cats around.They drank it all and licked the pail, then all went round the man thanking him. And in four months after the wife got sick and had to go to a Dublin Hospital and died in it. She said when she was dying Don't bring me back to Rath, bring me to Boherquill chapel and bring me to my own people to Rathaspic graveyard. And that is the house and land that John Meehan is living in nowThe next farm house on that land Rath was McGirr's where Frank O'Regan is living now. In the famine times McGirr fired
( Tobar Neddy is almost on the edge of the stream (river Riffey) at Daly's Mill Russagh, on the lands of John Meehan Rath (Streete). The people mention this well frequently and many in Russagh draw drinking water from it - T. McGarry)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Tighe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Corrydonnellan, Co. na hIarmhí
- Informant
- Miss Ellen Langan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- An Rosach, Co. na hIarmhí
