School: Cushatrough (roll number 14986)
- Location:
- Cushatrough, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ghoilidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0004, Page 372
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- There was a man and a woman not long ago living in Omey Island. The man was fishing one day and he caught a big eel and he brought it home, cleaned it and salted it. One night when they were in bed they heard great noise in the kitchen and the man got up out of bed and looked a round the house and saw nothing, he looked in the tub and the eel was gone he got the track of the eel going to the sea again.
- Collector
- Mary O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Martin Conneely
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Claddaghduff, Co. Galway
- There was a man and his wife coming from Clifden. Coming down by Shinanach he came down off his horse at a big cliff and it opened and he went in. There(continues on next page)
