School: Connach, Inis Céin (roll number 10557)

Location:
Connagh, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire Ní Ghealbháin
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  1. There was a schoolmaster in this school and he used to give my grandfather a pipe of tobbaco. He asked him one day for a smoke and he gave him two pipes of tobbaco and he said "how can I be giving it to you always". 'God will give him enough' said my grandfather. 'Why dont he give it to you', the master said, 'sure He does, there it is'. Some time after that my grandfather was at a wedding. There was a doctor there and the master had told him about my grandfather. And he told the man of the house, to night he is in the house, and the said he'd wish to see him and the to his sister to call him up. She did, and she said the doctor and the man wanted him and he went. The man said 'is it a fact that you are getting tobbaco from God.' He said 'I suppose it is the doctor told you he said, yes'. He got a glass
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eibhlín Ní Cruadhlaoich
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    10
    Address
    Connagh, Co. Cork