School: Béal Átha Gearr
- Location:
- Ballygar, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Labhrás Ó Síoráin
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The very moment the girl was dead the skies were filled with hundreds of people on horseback and at the head of them all rode the dead boy and the dead girl.
- There was once a boy in Castlefrench and he was very fond of playing cards. One night there was to be a game of cards in a neighbours house and so the boy and his companions went there. The boy won most of the games and so he went home joyfully. The boy had to cross a style on his way home and as he crossed the style there was a man with a table and a pack of cards the other side. This man asked the boy to have a game of cards. The boy said he would so the two men began to play. This man was the Devil himself but the boy did not(continues on next page)
