School: Scoil na gCailíní, Iomaire Buidhe (roll number 9818)
- Location:
- Ummeraboy East, Co. Cork
- Teacher: E. Bean Uí Shuibhne
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0355, Page 344
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- (continued from previous page)do him more good than harm. Sean was very fond of tobacco and took much pleasure in smoking his pipe. When he had his pipe full and a piece of tobacco in his pocket he used to say "I am as happy as any King that ever ruled Ireland."One night in the month of January Sean found himself very much disappointed. There was a hole in the pocket of his vest and through the hole slipped his piece of tobacco and the next shop that sold tobacco was ten miles away. Sean went to his neighbour Mickie Tag and asked him for a piece of tobacco but Mickie had only a piece the size of a marble, and could not afford to share with Sean. Sean left disappointed. He next went to Davie Keeffe another neighbour and again left disappointed. Davie had only as much tobacco as was in his pipe and Sean had to leave without any smoke.He thought of the woman of the well and he went towards her. She handed him the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen O' Keeffe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Urraghilmore West, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Edmond Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Urraghilmore West, Co. Cork
