Peggy Randles

On our trip up to Ard Aoibhinn Sr Mary brought Aoife, Niamh and Laura to Peggy Randles house to ask her a few questions.
Peggy lived in an old thatched house in Pollough. The house is 300 years old and some of her family still live there. It was only a two-roomed house. She was one of twelve children.
She went to school in Pollough. She liked maths but didn’t like Irish. One of her teachers wasn’t as nice as the rest; she would occasionally hit the children. Peggy used to play Mothers and Chickens. The way you play is: the chickens run off in different directions and Mother has to catch them before they get killed. It is like what we call tag. Another game she played was Jackstones. She explained how to play that too. You get five stones and lay them on the palm of your hand; then throw them up and try to catch them all. The person with the most stones wins.
Her favourite pastimes were ballroom dancing and going to céilís but nowadays she is not able to dance anymore.
Peggy has two daughters and had a husband who sadly passed away. Her two daughters visit her regularly but don’t live near. She still has family in Pollough.
She worked in Salts in Tullamore and her job was to make the cloth finer. The main loom was known as the Jumbo.
Peggy went back and forth from Britain on the Princess Mod. She went just after the war so they weren’t really ready for people to go on board the boat so it was a very uncomfortable way to travel.
Peggy has a great sense of humour. When we were asking her questions she said that when we were trying to remember the number of her house all we had to think of was number 10 Downing Street in England because her house was number 10 on the estate
She also mentioned that she went to all the parties and most of the activities in the centre in Ard Aoibhinn.

Polite
Easygoing
Great company
Games she loves
Young at heart

Real good fun
A lady with 11 brothers and sisters
Nursing home, she worked in
Dancing, was her hobby
Liked maths in school
England, she lived in for 57 yrs
She says her address is 10 Downing St.