School: Scoil an Chúrnánaigh, Caisleán Nua Thiar
- Location:
- Newcastle, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pr. Ó Fionnmhacháin
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- (continued from previous page)shoemaker away to drowned him. They put him into a bag. He was saying I won't marry her. There was a man coming to the market with pigs. He heard him saying I won't marry her. I will marry her instead, so said the man. The man went into the bag. The robbers came and throught him into the river. The robbers overtook the shoemaker. They said where did you get those pigs, under the sea he said. How would we get down, tie a stone on to every one of your necks and so they did. They all jumped into the sea and was drowned and the shoemaker lived happy ever after.
- Collector
- Paul Kiely
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- Male
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- John Kiely
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- Male
