School: Cathair Loisgreáin (B)
- Location:
- Caherlustraun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic de Chlár
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- I) Willie Duddy was going to Martin King's funeral. He met Tom Biggs on the way.
"Tom:- "Where are you going and the day so well?"
"Willie:- I am going to the funeral"
"Tom:- "No man living could be buried to-day"
Willie:- "It is a dead man we are going to bury"
II) Stephen Cassidy was going to a wake in Cloonaghasagh but he did not know the way to the village.
Everyone he met he asked them where was the dead man living and they told him he was living in heaven.
- Informant
- Thomas Roche
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ummoon, Co. Galway
- Chuaigh fear go dtí margadh lá amháin agus bhí máilín coirce aige le h-aghaidh an chapaill.
Ní raibh aon phóca aige leis an airgead a chongbáil ann. Chuir sé an t-airgead leis an gcoirce agus d'ith(continues on next page)
