School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ní Chróinín
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- (continued from previous page)night that he would go to the grave and take the blankets off her. This night he went to get them. As he was going through the church gate he met another neighbour man. They both spoke to other. The other man told him he had not a bit in the house and he was going to steal a sheep. Mulligan told the man about going for the blankets. They said one would give the other half the blankets and the other give him half the sheep. They both went on.
There was a man coming home from his ceilidhe. He saw the man taking the blankets. He had an aunt buried a few days before and he thought it was she coming back again. He went home and told his mother. She told him why didn't he speak to her. The mother was a cripple. Her son told her he would carry her to the grave and she could speak to his aunt.
He wrapped her in a sheet and went to the grave. They saw the man in the blankets. The man in the blankets thought they were the man with the sheep. He said: "Is she fat? Is she fat?" The son(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Peter Carroll
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
