School: Lisdoonan
- Location:
- Lios Dúnáin, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: S. Mac an Éanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0930, Page 182
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They went on their way to the market a delightful pair thinking of the great and grand things they would wish for. Going up the Main Street the woman saw a little tin bottle in a shop window and forgetting her self she said "I wish I had that little bottle" and the next minutes it was in her had. The husband being very angry said "I wish it was stuck in your mouth? In a moment it was in her mouth and all the men and women in Carrick could not get it out. The doctor was sent for but he succeeded no better so all the husband could do was to give the last wish and wish the kettle was out. So home they went a sadder and a wiser pair. N. P. The best story I every heard concerns a thing which happened in this parish. In the next townland to ours namely Annahai there is a large deep hole in a field and this according to the old people is the was it was made. Before the coming of St.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kate Anne Finegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lios na gCoincheann, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Informant
- Mrs Alice Finegan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lios na gCoincheann, Co. Mhuineacháin
