School: Ballymahon (B.) (roll number 12690)
- Location:
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Eugene Conway
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0751, Page 220
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- About fifty years ago a poor husbandman lived in Forgney. He was very sorry to see his family poorly clad and often hungry. He could often be heard sobbing to himself when he would be working. One day a kindly farmer gave him work. He was picking potatos near the road he suddenly heard the clatter of hooves and looking round he saw round, a woman wounted on an ass with a baby in her arms and a man walking alongside the ass. He appeared to be her husband. They noticed how troubled he looked. They looked at at him and the woman asked him what was the trouble. He answered in a husky voice, "I am troubled because I have moting nothing for my family to eat." The woman said to herself, "he shall not hunger or thirst. That evening when he went home his wife presented him with a good dinner of potatos and cabbage. He asked her where she had got the good food. She said she got it in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Walton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Jack Moloy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Clooncallow, Co. Longford
