School: Moyaugher (roll number 4523)
- Location:
- Moyagher, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Choileáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0695, Page 319
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- (continued from previous page)for him and fight you a long way as hard as they can, but when they find out they are beaten they will give up." The mother did as she was told and found everything exactly as described by the little old woman. She seized the child, the woman yelled and she and the man rushed at her, She got her bucket and brush and kept winding the broom at them. They could not pass the stuff she was dashing at them. They fought a hard battle until at last they became exhausted at Goat-marble-hill and they went away. The mother came home with her child, wearied but glad, and from that day on nothing ever happened to the child.
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- Collector
- Mary Collins
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- James Caffrey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Jamestown, Co. Meath
