School: Cluain Tuirc (B.)
- Location:
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 333
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- Once upon a time when the Holy Family were walking threw the country and the had to cross hedges and ditches, and the Blessed Virgin lost a pin out of her coat and She had to put a stick in it.She had not gone far when she came to a tailor's house and She asked for a pin and he said he had not one. She then went on to a smiths forge and told her story. The smith took a piece of money from this pocket and made a pint out of it, and ever since a tailor is cursed and a smith is blessed.
- If it takes two apples to make an orange and two oranges to make an apple how many of each would make a pair? Two(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jim Feeney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Moherrevan, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Henry Nichol
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Drumlom, Co. Leitrim
