School: An Gleann (roll number 14113)
- Location:
- Glen, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Ciaráin
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- A Funny Story.
Once upon a time there lived a man and his wife who had no land except one small garden on which they kept a cow. When the grass was all eaten off the garden, they put the cow on top of the house where there was a large amount of grass growing but the cow fell in through the house and killed herself.
Then the man of the house did not know what to do. He said he would have to go out and work for his living and when leaving he told his wife to have a piece of meat on a(continues on next page) - Collector
- Lizzie Conway
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drummacool, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Patriosa Conlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockbreenagher, Co. Sligo
