School: Windgap, Thomastown (roll number 5698)
- Location:
- Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 096
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Once upon a time there lived a young woman and her husband and her husband's mother and father. Those young couple had a baby girl. One night this young woman went for a bucket of water. She was all right going but when she came back she was very ill and had to go to bed. Her husband was very anoyed when his wife was so bad. She lived a fortnight and then died. Her husband was very sorry after her and would not go out in the evenings as he used to. Then one night his neighbours invited him in to play cards and he went. When he was gone his mother was sitting at the fire and before many minutes were gone her daughter-in-law, that was supposed to(continues on next page)
