School: Cnoc Rua
- Location:
- Knockroe, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Seán Mac Diarmada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 353
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- (continued from previous page)that she would marry him that she was a very hard working girl and had a small appetite, So he married her. One day while her husband was away she invited her friends. There was a lot of food in the house and the friends ate it all. When the man came home he asked his wife where was all the food. She told him that herself and her friends ate it and more if they had it. The man went mad and fell sick all he was able to say was "and more if we had it." One day he was very bad and was going to die. The loyer came to make the will. But all he could get out of him was "and more if we had it." So he went to the wife and asked her what he meant by saying "and more if we had it." The wife told him the meaning of it was that when he would die he would leave all the property to her and more if he had it. So the man died and the wife got all the property.
- Collector
- Mary Kate Carty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockroe, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Battie Cartie
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leam, Co. Roscommon
