School: Pollréamoinn (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Pollremon, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Duibhghiolla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0014, Page 170
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He would never feel anything , hurting him.One day he went into a house and he was very cold and he left his feet on the ashes and the boys began to leave coals very near them but he never felt them.Maloneys in Brierfort Williamstown , Co. Galway was a very usual place for him to get lodgings at that house. When everyone was in bed and he asleep on his bag by the fire they came and opened the door very quietly and they began to dance and kicking tar- barrells all over the floor and he ran to the room and said "Maloney get up your house is haunted" and he went away.
There was another man named Tom Rainey and he used to be playing on a fiddle and he would be playing for ten minutes for three pence.
There was another man namedTom a Mala, and he was also known as Patch Whitewash because he was so pale in his face.One Easter he had a score of eggs and he began(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Lyons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kildaree, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Kate Hanley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Kildaree, Co. Galway
