School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (roll number 5215)
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: John McGee
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- Long years ago there lived in Ardnaree a man named O'Dowd who owned the street. One day the O'Dowd was asked to a big party in Dublin and he was in a terrible state as he had no dancing shoes, so he went to a neighbour called O'Sullivan and asked him for the loan of his shoes. After a while the man said he would give them to him but before he gave them he made a bargain that the shoes would have to be returned before a certain date or if not Ardnaree would be his. The O'Dowd went off with the shoes and did not return so from that day to this there was never known an O'Dowd to live in Ardnaree.
- Informant
- Miss Bertie Ferguson
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 26
- Address
- Ardnaree or Shanaghy, Co. Mayo