School: Gort na mBó (roll number 14418)
- Location:
- Bofield, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Laoghaire
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- (continued from previous page)the priest. "No bout she is dying", says John. They were talking like that a long time and every time John would say that his mother was dying, The priest started thinking and he thought that it would be as well for him to go. He told John that he would be down after him to the house.
After a while the servant boy went out and got the pony and trap, Then the priest and the boy went down to John Durkin's house.
The priest went into the house and who did he find in it sitting in the corner but John's mother. I think she was eating something too. The priest was talking to her a good while and at last he asked her was she(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Flannelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bofield, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr O' Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bofield, Co. Mayo
