School: Sean-Mhachaire (roll number 17015)
- Location:
- Shanvaghera, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Máille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0108, Page 407
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- (continued from previous page)to go to England and he set out that night against his will. People used to travel most of the way on foot so he brought ten or eleven oat cakes in a bag. He went across the ath until he came to the fort. He thought he heard something. He knelt down and said "God direct me to the best", He mad another thought and he put one of the cakes standing on its edge, on the top of the hill and faced it for home and said "Cake, whatever way, you go I'll follow you, The cake reeled down the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Addergoole, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Thomas Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Addergoole, Co. Mayo
