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School: Corr-Shaileach (roll number 12208)

Location:
Corsallagh, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0172, Page 089

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    to drive out every day in her coach and four. One day as she was coming along in her coach she met the priest and she told her driver not to leave the road as he had a trap with him. When he had gone a little way he called to the old woman" Take care, Mam, the dog might bite you" at that moment the dog went mad and jumped up to the old woman and bit her badly, she also went made. When she went home she smothered herself between two mattresses.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Walsh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Leitrim North, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Joseph Mc Intyre
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Leitrim North, Co. Sligo