School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 04_019
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“Once upon a time people were hurling in a field beyond in Derryfadda.”
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A Story
Once upon a time people were hurling in a field beyond in Derryfadda.Tom Mc Mahon that owned the field and he did not want them to be hurling there.
He began cursing them and they would not go for him.After a start he took of his hat and went down on his knees cursing them .He said "me will put um out of my garden"and they went then.
- Collector
- Annie Devaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Scalp, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs Fanny Vaughan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Scalp, Co. Clare