School: Tattenclave

Location:
Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
B. Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 043

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    it will come out". The next day she came back and she brought the ointment and the needle came out all right, and the girl got better.
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  2. One time there lived a family by the name of Mulligan. They lived in Corleck. The people that were in the family were the mother Lizzie Mulligan and the son and daugther. The son got married and the daugher send her mother a present. This Chrismtas she sent the mother a pair of blankets. They were very poor. No matter how cold the winter was the mother would not give the blankets to the son and wife.
    When she was dying she said the blankets were to be wrapped round her. The son said they would want them themselves. The wife said to give them: that she would only be back for them. "We had her long enough".
    The following winter was very cold and they were very poor. The son said one
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Folktales index
    AT0503: The Gifts of the Little People
    AT1791: The Sexton Carries the Parson
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peter Smyth
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    14
    Address
    Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Peter Carroll
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan