School: Cloran (roll number 5282)
- Location:
- Cloran and Corcullentry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Síle Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0725, Page 0282
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- (continued from previous page)you as long as it lasts. She went on until she came to the same house as her sisters, the master hired her & told her not to go into the special room. Something tempted her to go in. She went in & got her foot broken & it began to bleed & no sooner than it did [?[ the dog came & licked up the blood & cured the foot.
When the man came home & found she did not go into the room, he married her. They put down the kettle and made tay & if they don't live happily that we may.Nancy's father heard this story from an old man named Willie McKeon. This man was a great story teller. He used to tell this and many other stories at wakes in the district around.
- Collector
- Neansaí Ní Ghallochbhair
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Causestown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Pádraig Ó Gallochbhair
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Causestown, Co. Meath
