School: Lloyd (Scoil Laoide) (roll number 15987)
- Location:
- Toberdan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Choibián
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- We often gather into "the Widow's" to ramble when the day's work is done. A few nights ago we were there. We had listened for a while to our two village pipers giving a selection of old Irish airs on the bag-pipes; we had tired ourselves on the floor dancing "The Siege of Ennis", The Bridge of Athlone" and plenty of other dances as well, while The Widow herself played for us on the accordian. and finally, when we were all tired out with such strenous sport, we seated ourselves around the fire, and indulged in the pleasant pastime of story telling.
It all began out of a remark somebody make about a neighbourng man who had gone astray a few nights before that, when returning home from card-playing and how(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bea Boyd
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Toberdan, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Tom Kilroy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toberdan, Co. Roscommon
