School: Béal Átha Feorainne (B.) (roll number 1866)
- Location:
- Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M.S. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271B, Page 03_004
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- (continued from previous page)into the house looking for alms. The mother of the baby asked her would she go back to Ballyconall as quickly as she could and go into the house of the king and ask for some help. She told her that the king's wife would ask her for news. She told her to tell her that there was a son born to Mary Moran three days before that. She stood up and got an axe and gave a blow to a god which she had tied on a rafter of the house and said 'What good is all my witchcraft now'. At that moment, the baby was born at Tom na gréine. After a while other families came from the bogs into the village and built little houses. Afterwards the landlord took if over and had it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anthony Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowkeel, Co. Roscommon
