School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 120
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- Once upon a time there were three men moving meadow in the townland of Collingsford.They wanted a coal to light their pipes, and they started to [?] to see which of them would go for it.At last they struck on a plan. They said each of them would write a piece of recitation and whichever would be the worst would have to go for the coal.First man said:
"I and the owner of that little house
had a falling out
And if I went for a coal
She'd break my snout."Second man said:-
"I am a stranger in this locality
And for the sake of a coal
You wouldn't ask me go."The third who was supposed to be the cleverest was the longest thinking of what to say and at last he said:(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Michael Crystal
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 61
- Address
- Collinsford, Co. Sligo
