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School: Coill an Gharráin (roll number 14865)

Location:
Killacorraun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Riagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0152, Page 443

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    well. The girl ran back to the publichouse and Daniel said that he would get her hanged for killing his mother. The man who owned the publichouse said that he would give him three hundred pounds if he did not get his daughter hanged. Daniel came home with the three hundred pounds in the evening. Hudden and Dudden asked him where did he get all the money and Daniel said that there were alot in the town looking for old hags to make gunpowder, when Hudden and Dudden heard this they killed their mother and they brought her to the town and began shouting, any old hags for gunpowder. When the children of the town heard them shouting they followed them out of the town throwing
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Folktales index
    AT1535: The Rich and the Poor Peasant
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Leonard
    Gender
    Male