School: Dealgain (roll number 11770)
- Location:
- Dalgin, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Breandán Ó Riain
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- There was once a woman in France who lived in a small hut. One rainy day a man went into the hut for shelter. The woman was sitting in a corner but it was just as bad inside because the rain was coming in through the roof. The man asked her why she did not put up thatch on some fine day and then there would be no
"rain-down" on a wet day she said "why would I sure a drop does on come in here at all on a fine day.
- Informant
- Michael Derane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Conagher, Co. Galway
