School: Straboe (roll number 12934)
- Location:
- Straboe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Bríd Nic Cormaic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0835, Page 117
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- Once their was husband and he had a servant boy. The wife had gone to the town. The men were out working and when they came in for their evening tea the wife was not home from town, but there was a little old woman sitting on a chair at the fire, and she would not speak.
They sat with her for a long time and still she did not speak. At last they brought her out and they began pushing her about to try to make her speak. Still she would not speak for them. Then the brought a priest and when he saw her he said, that he could not no anything with her, and they never saw her anymore.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Lalor
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Grey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Shaen, Co. Laois
