School: Cill Seanaigh (C.), Inis (roll number 10518)
- Location:
- Kilshanny, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Mhic Consaidín
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- (continued from previous page)the house. She said that the fine day it did not need thatch and the wet day she could not go up on it. He went to Lisdoonvarna. He went into a shop, the woman asked him if he had come far and he said he was from heaven. "Tell me" said she "how are Jack and Paddy". He said they were very bad that they had not enough to eat or drink and that they had bad clothes. The man had a horse and car and she filled the car with tea, sugar, flour, and clothes, a frying pan and a kettle. The man started on his journey home. When the woman's husband came in she said "where is my frock". "I gave it to a man from heaven who will give it to Paddy or Jack" said his wife. "Which way did he go" asked her husband. She said that he went down the road and he followed him. When the man with the car saw him coming he turned the horse and went into a field at the other side of the road. When the man(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Agnes Lacey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrownahooan West, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John Lacey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrownahooan West, Co. Clare
