School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)
- Location:
- Thomastown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Dubhlaine
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- (continued from previous page)her and if you meet me here to-morrow night I will bring you a sweet heart and the boy said he would and you need not fear but that she is as high in rank as yourself. Then the night after the woman brought the girl with her and the boy met them on the road and the woman said "I will hope your father will like her. Then when the boy saw the girl he fell in love with her and the boy said that it was all a matter what his father would say for the boy said she would be his. Then when the father saw her he said that they should get married before he would die and so they did and he died two days later after the marriage.
According to the story this woman was her own mother that was dead on account of the step-mother banishing her froms her own home by witchery.Patrick O Dowd.
Moat Quarter
Kilfeacle
Co. Tipperary.Told by my grandmother
Mrs. O Donnell (76)
Moat Quarter
Kilfeacle
- Collector
- Patrick O' Dowd
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moatquarter, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs O' Donnell
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Moatquarter, Co. Tipperary
