School: Teampall Mhuire
- Location:
- Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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- (continued from previous page)first he did not see the salmon, but at last he said this poem.
"O men of the sea
Come listen to me.
For Alice my wife
The plague of my life.
Has asked a boom of thee."
The salmon came up out of the water at once and said, "What does she want?" Then he said, "She wants to be living in a cottage." "Go home and you will see her standing in the door of the cottage." The man went home and saw her standing in the door of the cottage.
"What do you want now" said the man. "I want to be in a two-storey house", she said. The man went off then. When he(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ita Killeen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cartoon, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Killeen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cartoon, Co. Mayo
