School: Gort an Ghainimh (roll number 16127)
- Location:
- Gortaganny, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Ó Cobhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0242, Page 445
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- (continued from previous page)not up. He cut a ring around himself with the stick which Fr Brian had given him. Well then says the man "we'll leave it to the judgment of the first person who shall come past us". "I am satisfied" said The Devil. Friar Brian came to the place where they were.
"What is it all about" says he. The Devil told him he had this man bought for twenty years, and he had to come with him today; "it is left to you to judge the case".
"Now," says Friar Brian "if you were go to a fair to buy a cow or a horse and if you gave earnest money for it wouldn't you say that it was more just for you to have him than a man who would come in the evening and who would buy it without paying any earnest(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josephine Flanagan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowbehy, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- John Flanagan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowbehy, Co. Roscommon
