School: Adamstown (roll number 3755)
- Location:
- Adamstown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Donnchadh Cuirtéis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0899, Page 398
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“There was a woman by the name of Biddy Murphy (Faree, Foulksmills, Co Wexford).”
(continued from previous page)now," sez he "I must go home without the habit." Away he went and he drenched to the skin. When he got home there was no wan in the kitchen. He stood at the fire to dry himself. After sometime the mistress came down, "Begor , Brian" sez she, "where did you go when you brought in the habit? I got it on the table two hours ago. We just had her arm in it before she died."
He never let on she took it from under his arm going across the river.
- Collector
- Thomas P. Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- John Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Raheen, Co. Wexford