School: Piercetown (B.) (roll number 4990)
- Location:
- Piercetown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Maitiú Ó Cléirigh
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- (continued from previous page)doing his best. He made a promise with the farmer that "dead or alive" he would roof his shed by that day week. It happened that before the week was out the carpenter died. One night the farmer heard some hammering and in the morning he was surprised to see a part of his shed roofed. For three mornings the hammering went on. On the third morning when the farmer went out he saw his shed roofed.
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- Collector
- Peter Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyfinoge Great, Co. Wexford