School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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- (continued from previous page)the cloak, but that it must be always kept dry and from being burned. He went at once and loosened the thatch and out the cloak in under it, and then put another coat of thatch nicely on the outside. They lived happily for years after they went every Sunday to mass in Aughagower.
One Sunday they were coming home from mass, when coming in sight of their house they saw that it was on fire. She told him she would have to go. No sooner had she said the words than she disappeared.
I heard this story from
Mrs. A. Nolan, Knappabeg, Westport
- Collector
- Maureen Nolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knappagh Beg, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs A. Nolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knappagh Beg, Co. Mayo
