School: Garracloon (roll number 6852)
- Location:
- Garrycloonagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: James J. Clarke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0148, Page 61
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- Once there lived a man and his wife and they were very poor. They had a bag of oats and the man told his wife that the next fine day that would come she would have to clean the oats. The next fine day that came the woman brought the bag of oats out to a hill to clean it. Just when she was ready to start a sudden breeze came and brought away all the oats.
When she came home the man told her to go out to the garden and cut a head of cabbage for their dinner. The woman took the knife and went out to the garden and started to cut the cabbage. She cut all the cabbage that was in the garden and after two days it was all rotten. They were poorer than every and the man said they would have to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Molloy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockfree, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Martin Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Knockfree, Co. Mayo
