School: Island Parish
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Seán Ó Móráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0805, Page 335
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- (continued from previous page)best not to sleep but at last he had to give in. He lay down and fell asleep, After a while he heard a voice calling him. He looked up and saw Biddy at his side.
She told him to get up and go home or the horse would be dead. He went home and did as Billy told him. The mare got better and never got sick any more.
- Once there lived a man named James Daly. One day he said he would begin to dig his garden. He began to dig it, and when he had half of it dug he said he would dig no more of it for a couple of days. But he changed his mind and he began to finish the digging of his(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Edward Grennan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonshanny, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mr Peter Egan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonshanny, Co. Offaly
