School: Gleann Gort, Caisleán Nua Thiar (roll number 7329)
- Location:
- Glengort South, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0492, Page 164
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“Long ago there was a tailor who lived all alone in a little house under the slope of a small hill.”
Long ago there was a tailor who lived all alone in a little house under the slope of a small hill. One may morning an old woman came in and asked for a coal of fire. Not thinking of the morning he gave her permission to take it, and she went away. He then thought of the morning he had and he immediately snatched another coal and quenched it in a a bucket of water. After a few minutes she came again and he did the same and she kept on until the fire was gone out and still she had no hold of the man. She then took a box from a hole in the house and some ointment that was in it, she rubbed it to her(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Ita Mulcahy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocknadiha, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mr Ned Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Toornafulla, Co. Limerick