School: An Clochar, Banada (roll number 11887)
- Location:
- Banada, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSr M. de Lellis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0173, Page 163
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- (continued from previous page)"marin ditch" ie ("a ditch that separates two farms") playing a flute. The music was very loud and the next-door neighbour "an Orangemen" - Willie Williams being tormented by the little boy came over to him and beat him and broke the flute. Of course the little boy came over and told his mother.
Immediately afterwards Willie Williams passed the way on horseback going to Castebar. He came towards the woman who was still milking. The woman asked him why he beat the son and he answered and said that the boy tormented him by playing his flute.
As the Orangeman passed he plunged the horse over the tub and spilled the milk. The woman seeing the blessed milk(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Lundy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Curry, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Bhéra Ní Chonmhaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Toberroddy, Co. Sligo
