School: Béal Tráighe (roll number 14349)
- Location:
- Beltra, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Conmara
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0092, Page 254
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- In olden times their lived a man and his wife. They had plenty means of living but they had no family. One day the man went to a fair with a springer cow to sell her and that he did. He went into a public house and drank until he was tired. On returning home he met an old woman she asked him was he happy and he said he was very happy but that he had no family. Go home now she said and in nine months from this you will have a young son. She told to start planting tree in the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Níc Giollachoin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Boleyglass, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Tomás Mach Giollachoin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Boleyglass, Co. Mayo
