School: Killyon (roll number 7120)

Location:
Killyon, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Brighid, Bean Uí Fithceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 427

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    One time there was a great card play in a certain house.

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    while both of them were hanged for treachery. The young man went home and spent his holidays well and happy. When he went back he found his master very ill. When his master died he willed him all his estate and houses. Then the young man sent for his father and his mother. They came and lived happy with him ever after.
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    Once in a time, and a very good time it was too, it was neither in my time nor your, but it was in somebodys time.

    The following five stories are written in by Rita Keoghan who heard them from her mother Mrs. Alice Keoghan, Ballyadams, Hill-of-Down, Meath who heard them from her father John Burke (same address) who died March 1937 aged 84 years.
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    Once in a time, and a very good time it was too, it was neither in my time nor your, but it was in somebody's time.
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    Folktales index
    AT1408: The Man who Does his Wife's Work
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rita Keoghan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballyadams, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Mrs Alice Keoghan
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballyadams, Co. Meath