School: Loughagar (roll number 5696)
- Location:
- Loughagar More, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Énrí Mac an Abba
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0737, Page 284
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- There was once two men who used to go out to kill rabbits. One night they were going down a lonely avenue and they heard a man coming down the lonely avenue kicking the leaves that had falling from the trees When the man came up to them. The two men said "Good night and he did not answer them and they said it thrice and he answered -Remember me as you pass by as you are now, so once was I.
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- Mrs Gaffney
- Gender
- Female
- Once upon a time a man lived up near (dromond) Dromond he was very lazy.
Every night when he went to bed he brought up a shoval with him. When he would (wakin) waken in the morning he would let down the window and stick out the shoval, if any drops were on the shoval he would think it raining.
If the day was fine he would(continues on next page) - Informant
- John Gaffney
- Gender
- Male
