School: Castlerock N.S. (roll number 13242)
- Location:
- Drummartin, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Frank Haran
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0174, Page 205
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- There was a man in olden times who got married and he had only one daughter and his wife diedHe got married again and he had two daughter's and one of them had one eye and the other had three eyes.The step mother did not like the first daughter atall.Every day the step mother used to send the other girl out minding a goat while her own two girls would be eating.Then she would call her in to eat when the others would have eaten.So one day when she was out minding the goat a fairy woman came to her and told her to call the goat in his name and the dinner would come to her.When the step mother saw her getting fat she sent one of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrownaskeagh, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs Brigid Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Gortakeeran, Co. Sligo
