School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)
- Location:
- Irishtown, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mrs Mc Manus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0097, Page 206
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- There was once a woman and she had only one son. She had a little house near the bog and the way she had for living was carding and spinning wool and sending it to the weaver to make fannion and selling it at the market and the name she had in the son was Paddy the fool.
So she got sick one market day and she sent Paddy with the flannion so the flannion was hardly dry. He went to the market and he wouldnt get anyone to buy it. He me a man and he told him to spread it out for a half an hour and he would get a sale for it. So he went and spread it in an bush outside of town.
So he went into the market to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Rattigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
