School: Ballinlig (roll number 2994)
- Location:
- Ballinlig, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: J. Seery
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0168, Page 459
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- There were two boys living in this district long ago and one night they were going by a garden. They went in and stole alot of apples out of it. They ran along the road until they came to a graveyard and they said they would go in and count the apples. When they were going in they lost two apples at the gate. Then there came two more boys and they heard the talk at the graveyard. One of then said "what is the noise" and the other boys said there was somebody counting the souls. Then one of the boys inside the gate said what about the two outside and the boys outside the gate thought it was themselves. So they ran as hard as they could until they were a good distance away from the gate.
- Informant
- Maurice Kivlehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Beltra, Co. Sligo
