School: Baile Rua (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Ballyroe, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Crosáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0014, Page 067
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- (continued from previous page)gone to the funeral he got up from his bed and went out and when he was walking along the road he dropped dead on the middle of the road.
There was once a man by the name of John Kearney of Shambally and he died with the "flu" and he was suffering for a long time and he died very suddenly.
- A Hidden TreasureThere was once a many by the name of John Tormey of Castletogher. One day around spring he was repairing a fence in his garden and he had to dig up the rest of an elder bush and as he was digging it up he found a noggin down by the side of it, and there was a little lid on it. Then he brought it into his house and he gave it to his wife. She took the lid off it and she found sixty nine(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Matt Geraghty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Williamstown, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mr John Tormey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Williamstown, Co. Galway
