School: Ceathrú na Laithighe (Brownsgrove) (roll number 12138)
- Location:
- Brownsgrove, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó hAnnracháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0396
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- (continued from previous page)Next day he went to tell the priest of the fellow that robbed him, and the priest told him to put a bottle of Holy Water in his pocket and to ask the same man to play the same game with him when he would get the chance to dip his finger in the water and to make a line with
his finger on the flag and to take care not to put his hand past the line. The other man was winning and one of his cards fell on the line,
and as much of his fingers that went over the line were cut off him and when they were finished the man that won before had the
£8-15-00 again and his fingers cut off him.
- Collector
- Bridie Mullin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cortoon, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Peter Mullin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Cortoon, Co. Galway
