School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)
- Location:
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Thos. Mc Gettrick
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- (continued from previous page)keeping her daughter. When she she went there she found her crying asked what was wrong, and she said. "I dont know what I will call the first child." Then the mother began to cry, and the father came and the same thing happened. Then the gentleman went down and found the three of them crying and asked what was wrong and they told him. Then he said, "If I dont get three fools as bad as you three to - morrow. I wont marry her. The gentleman set out the next morning to find three fools. He travelled a small bit and he saw a man with a box-barrow outside a new house and he was running in against the side-wall with(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael P. Scanlon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigans Upper, Co. Sligo
