School: Cúl na Fearna
- Location:
- Cúil na Fearna, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Duibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 262
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- (continued from previous page)astray all night. He stole into a small house he saw in the bog. He saw the door opened. He crawled in and behind the door where there was a lot of straw. He saw a woman sitting at the fire. She had a pot of meat on the fire and she was keeping the fire up and cooking it. It wasn't long until two men came in and a dead sheep with them across their shoulder. They wanted to know was the supper ready.
"Not yet" said the old woman. Ye better make a grave and bury the man that is behind the door. The made a grave in the garden. They came in and pulled a dead man out of the straw. As soon as the carried him(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Delia Naughton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cúil Luachra, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- Laurence Kilroy
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Béal Átha hAmhnais, Co. Mhaigh Eo
