School: Eaglais
- Location:
- Burren, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: S. Ó Mongaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0089, Page 057
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A Local Poem (continued)
“Cearc agus coileach a d'imigh le chéile...”
(continued from previous page)Ag dul ins an phota agus leac ar a bhéal
Anois ar san cearc ó thárla gur baintreabach mé
Gráine ní phiocfad a rachaidh sa gcré
Ach bheirim mo mhallacht tratnóna agus maidin
Do mbáibh Doire leathain isiad do chur deire mo Rian
- Once an old man died. When the people of the house thought he was long enough dead to lay him out they found he was not cold enough to put him over-board. So they said they would leave him another hour. When they went the second time one of the women questioned him and asked him if he was dead He answered "I am neither dead nor alive Then she said "what is troubling you now" He said that God had sent him back to this earth again for seven years for not thanking Him for all he had give him. When he died after seven years the same women put him over-board again.
- Collector
- Margaret Mc Donnell
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Randall Mc Donnell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Ardvarney, Co. Mayo
