School: Drumcormack (roll number 13201)
- Location:
- Drumcormick, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Nora Healy
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0184, Page 0250
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- A certain young woman around here lived in a tiny cottage by the roadside. One day in harvest time she went with several more to help in binding up the oats and left her child which she was nursing in a corner of the field quite safe as she thought wrapped up in her cloak. When she had finished her work she returned to where the child was, but in place of her own child she found a thing in the cloak that was not half the size and kept up such a crying.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bobby Bright
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Graniaroe, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Patrick Hogge
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bricklieve, Co. Sligo
