School: Ballyfeeny (roll number 9468)
- Location:
- Kilglass, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Mhurthuile
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- An old man called at a country house one night, and asked for a night's lodging. The people of the house told him, he could come inside, if he wished, but that they had no bed to spare. He did so. Later on when the boys of the house were preparing to go to bed, they let down the settlebed and when they were shaking up the bed three feathers flew out, and the old man got up and placed them along one after another on the floor and lay down on them.
Next morning when he got up he stretched himself and said, "Oh, Dear me" God help you boys that have to lie on so many of them so long I'm sore after only three of them.
- Collector
- Teresa Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Scramoge, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Scramoge, Co. Roscommon
