School: Ballinvally (C.) (roll number 932)
- Location:
- Ballinvally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Nic Shiomóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0724, Page 116
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- 1. There was a man and he was out in a field one day and a woman came along and a briar hanging out of her skirt. The man told her that there was a briar hanging out of her skirt and she said that it was all right. "Oh, no" said the man cutting the briar with his spade and a whole lot of milk began to run out of it.2. There was once a man and when they would churn they would never get any butter in the churn. There would be nothing but blood and froth in the churn. Now there was a man called Connor Sheridan who could tell where stolen things were gone and who took them. The man went to Connor Sheridan and told him his troubles. Conor told him to have a bit of a churning the next morning and to blind up all the windows and bar up the door and put the socket of the plough in the fire and start their churning and that they would(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomena Dargan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mrs Leary
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath
