School: Leargán Buidhe (C.) (roll number 14289)
- Location:
- Larganboy East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire, Bean de Priondargás
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0110, Page 450
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- (continued from previous page)"God save all here." There was a woman sitting in the corner. She was a Dane. She answered him. "God save you kindly." She gave him a little stick to break, and when he did so she said "You are an Irishman wherever you come from." The man told her he had come from Co. Galway. "Well" said she, "do you know that fort in Galway with the bush in the middle of it?" "Yes" said the man, "I live near that place."
"Well" she said, "go there and dig on the right side of the tree and you will get a little box. Do not try to open the box, for you cannot do so. Bring that box to me, and I shall make(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Feeney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Erriff, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Michael Waldron
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Erriff, Co. Mayo
