School: Sruthar (C.)
- Location:
- Shrule, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Éanacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0102, Page 111
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- Long ago a man lived very near the Gurteen woods, and he was married, and had a son. His wife died, and he got married again. The second wife proved a very cruel step-mother, and she was always fighting and scolding her step-son. So when he was old enough he enlisted in the army for seven years, and when the seven years were over, he came home, and his father and step-mother were very nice to him as he wad a little money. When he had the money spent, there got cross with him again, and he enlisted for fourteen years, and he came home again with more money. He bought a cow for them, and spent all his money again, and then they began to abuse him again. Then he went up to a little hill in the Gurteen woods, and he said: If ever I come home again, the devil and the ould devil may have me.
Then he enlisted for twenty-one years, and when the twenty-one years were over, he said to himself that he would go home to see if they were dead or alive. He walked all the way, and as(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Tom Nalty
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Kill, Co. Mayo
