School: Craig Dhubh
- Location:
- Cregduff, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Giobúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0101, Page 447
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- 1. There were once a man and a woman and six children in a house. One day they were out saving hay. The man struck the woman with the fork. The woman told the police and the man was brought away.
When he was a long time gone, he sent a messenger to his wife to ask her would she forgive him and she said that she would not.
Then the man died and one day she had milk down for her six children. The man who was dead walked in and put his hand onto the milk and he children died.
2. There was once a woman(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Angela Feeney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowmore, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Feeney
- Gender
- Female
