School: Páirc na bhFiadh (roll number 15585)
- Location:
- Deerpark, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Lil Nic Dhonnchadha
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- Daddy told me about a poor man called Paddy Ryan that lived in a little house near the road.
Very near the house was an old tree that was beside a rath.
One night as the old man was going to bed, he heard a knock at his door. He opened it and saw the smallest man he had ever see, who asked for something to eat, and when he got it, he said, "would you like to be well off"(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tommy Mitchell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Paddy Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Rathmore, Co. Laois
