School: Bullán (roll number 13432)
- Location:
- Bullaun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0059, Page 0085
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- (continued from previous page)would have to go away. The man went up on the top of the house and put it under the thatch.One day as she was churning milk the wind blew up the thatch of the house and when she looked up what did she see but the little red coat. She waited to finish the churning and when she had it finished she kissed the children and went away and was never seen again.Got from: My grandmother age 80, Ballyara, Bullaun.
By: Mary Donohoe, same address on the 8th May 1938.
- Proverbs1. A whistling woman and a crowing hen, Devil a much luck in the house they are in.2. You can bring a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.3. Too many cooks spoil the broth.4. He bit his own nose to spite his face.5. Never put back till tomorrow what you can do today.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Christy Deely
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymurry, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Denis Deely
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Ballymurry, Co. Galway
