School: Corr Odhar (roll number 14701)
- Location:
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Aibhistín Ó Coinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0126, Page 539
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- (continued from previous page)out the letter that was stamped and put in the letter that was not stamped.
He turned home and the letter with him. The man who was listening to the grass growing said, "We are done, our man is a sleep on the road." The man who was shooting ducks in Doman Toir, said "Let me out and I will waken him." He fired a shot and he blew the pin out of his ear and he woke up. The king's man was gone and the letter that was stamped with him. He had to go back to Dublin again and get the other letter stamped. They were out watching to see who was coming first, and they saw the king's man coming first.
The man who was blowing the hills into the hollows blew out of his nose and blew him up to Athlone again and the man who was minding hares came first. He went up to the king and said he had the king's daughter won and the king told him there was another [?] for him to marrow. The king went to the grand(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Melody
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Tom Melody
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
