School: Corr Odhar (roll number 14701)
- Location:
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Aibhistín Ó Coinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0126, Page 541
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- (continued from previous page)The man who was listening to the grass growing said, they are going to get a big supper for them. They had poison needles in chairs and when they would sit down they would be poisoned.
The man who was breaking stones with his back told them he would go first and sit on all the chairs and break all the needles. They went in then and they had a grate great supper and the king used to come the door to see were they all dead. When they had done they came out. He went up to the king and told him he had his daughter won the third time and the king said he had.
He got the daughter for marriage and the weight of her self of gold. He came home to his mother and all the men with him [?] they had a wedding, and it lasted for a week.
He lived back in Erris near Mairreen oran's duck house.
- Collector
- Patrick Melody
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Tom Melody
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
