School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 14_004
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- Once upon a time a widow and her son were living in a little cottage. The man went out in a field scoring for potatoes. There was a bush in the middle of the field in his way and he dug it up.
He got very sick and he went home. He had to go to bed. His mother was very troubled and she sent for a doctor but it was no good.
At last an old begger-man came in. He asked the sick man did he cut any bush. He told the begger that he did. The woman then set the bush and her son got better again.
- Collector
- Jimmie Adams
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mary Mc Donnell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Prison North, Co. Mayo
