School: Sraithín (roll number 12808)
- Location:
- Sraheen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Croidhean
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0150, Page 168
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“There was once a poor man who had three daughters. They lived near a rich farmer.”
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hand and to the bull. He brought her through ditches and hedges until he came to the castle. Then he turned into a man and showed her the heads. He asked her if she knew any of them. She said she knew her sister's head. Then he took his sword and cut off her head and hung it up. Now the last girl went to the the farmer. She saw the bull also and she got holy water and made a circle around her. She demanded the bull to go away and come back like a man. Then he said to the girl he was the man who killed her sisters and he said he would give back her sisters if she paid the debt for the man and he gave back the two girls and the other ten girls
James Brogan, Stonehall, Foxford.
Told by:-
Age: - 40 yrs.
Occupation:- Farmer.
Where born:- Stonehark
Where he spent his life:- In Ireland & England.
Collected by: Annie Brogan, Stonehall, Foxford.
- Collector
- Annie Brogan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stonehall, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- James Brogan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Stonehall, Co. Mayo