School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 147
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- Once upon a time there lived in a country village two families named O Toole and O Byrne. Mrs O Toole kept her house clean and neat but Mrs O Byrne kept her house very dirty; the hens came in and out as they liked. One morning Mrs O Byrne was in a fit of anger where a hen had gone in and flew up and broke her best jug. There was a man passing and she said, "how is that Mrs O Toole can send her children so clean and neat to school while I myself and the children are so ragged." The man said why don't you get a servant to do the work? I will bring you a servant tomorrow but remember she only has one eye, and the next day he brought her a needle.
- Collector
- Mary Ann Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Claggan, Co. Donegal
