School: Easgéiphtine (C.) (roll number 2040)
- Location:
- Askeaton, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Mhic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0503, Page 133
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- (continued from previous page)stayed there before but they had all died with fright.The boy agreed to stay up that night and try. The man (ag) said if he succeeded he would make him happy. He gave him all accomidation, a good fire, books to read, pipe and tobbacco and papers.At twelve o'clock a coffin with four men carrying it came down the stairs. A man sat up in it he was wide awake he was laughing and made faces. They brought the coffin down to where the boy sat. The boy put up courage (th) he took the pipe out of his own mouth and stuck it into the mans mouth, and he contiuned reading. At last the man stood up and told him he was the pluckiest man that ever came into the house. He took him to a certain part of the house and told him lift the flags. He did so and he got a fortune of gold.Next morning when the man came he told him what he saw and heard and got. The man said he would give him his daugher and (he) they were married. He had(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Female
