School: Muileann na hUamhan (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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- (continued from previous page)next day. He was only a couple of miles from his own home when he met a man and the man said to him; "Sean where are you going?". "I'm going to the market" said Sean naming the town, "with five barrels of corn, I want five pounds for the five barrels of corn" says Sean. "Will you sell it to me? I will give you five pounds for it; but you will have to leave it at home for me" says the man. "I will" says Sean "If I haven't farther to go than to the market". "You'll reach my home in less than an hour" says the man. "Well it would take me three or four hours to go to the market" says Sean, "so this is a good short cut for me" said Sean, so they went along the road for a mile or so and the man(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Breen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clashbeg, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Brigid Lanigan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 57
- Occupation
- Domestic worker
- Address
- Affoley, Co. Tipperary
