School: Pollréamoinn (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Pollremon, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Duibhghiolla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0014, Page 109
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- (continued from previous page)very sorry. When he went home that night he gave the bag to his wife Mary. She brought it up in the room and opened it and found out what was in it. They Mary said to John, "you are tired working on the road you ought to go to school a few days." The next day he went to school and when he went in he asked a book off the teacher. The scholars were pinching him and he was very vexed. When he went home he said to Mary that he would not go to school any other day and she told him not to go. A few days after the two men came and asked him did he get the bag and he said he did. May to the not to take any notice of him that he was silly. John said he got it the day before he wen too school. The men through he was silly and they went away without any money.
Story told by Mrs. Parsons, Polredmond, Williamstown and 75 years. Written by John Konnally Parklawn.
- Collector
- John Connally
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Parkbaun, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Parsons
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Pollremon, Co. Galway
