School: Calry (roll number 10473)
- Location:
- Colgagh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Róisín Mhig Ualghairg
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0159, Page 196
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- One very warm day as St Patrick was travelling through Calry. He felt very thirsty and he called at a house for a drink. The woman of the house gave him a drink.
She started complaining about the heat and how it had the crops destroyed and the cabbage ruined. St Patrick told her that heat was good for all crops.
She had a cake of bread on the fire and St Patrick told her that her cake was burning as he felt the smell of burning bread.
The woman rushed to the fire and looked at her cake and instead of a cake it was a big head of white cabbage that was in the oven. St Patrick told the woman that it was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Cullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loughanelteen, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs Cullen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Calry, Co. Sligo
