School: Fermoyle, Lanesboro (roll number 13321)
- Location:
- Formoyle (Newcomen), Co. Longford
- Teacher: S. Mac Eoin
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- (continued from previous page)Glebe house in Rathcline who was a cripple. His mother and servant boy lived with him. His old mother was very fond of nuts, so fond that she asked the parson to to put a bag of nuts on her tombstone when she would be buried.
Some time after her death two rogues went to steal a sheep belonging to the parson. One of them said he would stop in the graveyard until the other would find out where the sheep were. He found the nuts and sat on the tombstone to crack them. The servant boy passed by and saw him. He ran home and told the parson that his mother was cracking the nuts on the tombstone. The parson said he would not believe him unless he saw her. The servant boy rolled him up in a white sheet, and brought him down to the graveyard.
When the rogue saw them coming he thought it was his comrade with the sheep and he said "Have you her, is she fat" "Fat or lean, there she is for you" said the servant boy letting(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lily Killian
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Formoyle (Farrell), Co. Longford
- Informant
- Luke Killian Jr.
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Formoyle (Farrell), Co. Longford
