School: Carrigbyrne (roll number 4479)
- Location:
- Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Máire Cuirtéis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 520
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“There was a woman dying one time and she left fifty pounds to buy the habit and the people could not get a habit for fifty pounds...”
There was a woman dying one time and she left fifty pounds to buy the habit and the people could not get a habit for fifty pounds and then they sent to Dublin for it. It arrived in time for the funeral and they put it on her. All the people said it was a pity to put it in the ground. So they buried her with it.
That night two men were sitting at a fire and they were talking about the habit. They said they would go and get into the grave-yard and get it. So they went in and got it, and when they were coming home they saw lambs in a field and one of them said one of them lambs would make a fine supper for them.
One of the men went into the field to get one,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anthony Walshe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs T. Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford