School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 17_035
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- Long ago a woman wanted to kill her husband. He was a smith. One day he asked her for a drink when he was in the forge. She put poison in it for him.
She handed it to him across the anvil. But a drop fell on the anvil and broke it in two halves and then he knew that there was something bad in it and he did not drink .
Ever since if a smith gets a drink across the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Kearns
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Kearns
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Manulla, Co. Mayo
