School: Cortown (roll number 3113)
- Location:
- Cortown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Gabhann
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- (continued from previous page)broke the lep cap of my livery on a pawn brokers wig. "Good boy Jack," and I to myself and I put my head in under by oxter and my two shin bones in my pocket and I ran away through bogs of stirabout and bogs holes of buttermilk till I came out at the Curragh of Kildare. I struck my nose on the battlement of the bridge and the old had fell out. She was instantly burned in a blaze of cold water and she is now making beaver hats out off deal boards and the above story is all true because I saw it with my shin and my elbow.
- Collector
- Penelope Waters
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballybeg, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Patrick Dolan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moyagher, Co. Meath
