School: Ballynacargy (B.) (roll number 1731)
- Location:
- Ballynacarrigy, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: E. Mac Óda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 451
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- Below in Mr Heduvans there is a field called the Hungry Field.
If you stood on that fields after eating your dinner you would have to get another dinner when you got in.
One day my father was coming up that field when he stood on it.
He got very hungry when he came home. I thought he would eat the table.
Mr Blake stood on the same field.
He thought he would never get home for a feed.
My father or Mr Blake never walked across that field any more.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Gaynor
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Spollen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 94
- Address
- Ballynacarrigy, Co. Westmeath
