School: Gortlitreach (roll number 15960)
- Location:
- Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0220, Page 101
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- There was once an old woman and her son and they lived in an old house and they were very poor and the son was working for another man. And on a Saturday evening when he had his work done the man gave him a leg of mutton and he it on his back and went home and the next Saturday evening he got a dog and he put it in a bag and trew it on his back and went home the next Saturday evening he got an ass. There was a king and had a daughter and she couldnt talk. And when the boy was coming home from his work he threw the ass on his back and when he was coming by the Kings house the daughter was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Higgins
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- James Colreavy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
