School: Scropul, Mullach (roll number 8241)
- Location:
- Drummin, Co. Clare
- Teacher: M. Ó Callanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0623, Page 245
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A Story.
A certain young man was passing a Village by night .He saw a white woman out side a window and a white woman inside. The white woman inside handed out a child to the woman outside .He reached in and caught the child and took it with him to his own house.The next morning his mother called him to get up quickly that the child next door was dead and he had to go to the wake.He told her to make her mind easy that he had the child here in bed with him.So he went to the house and what looked like a child was laid out in a cradle .He ordered a big fire to be put down and he said."Ha! me boy!get ready(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susan Killeen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrownagry South, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Tom Cotter
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Carrownagry South, Co. Clare
