School: Ballyjamesduff Convent
- Location:
- Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Sr. Mary Theresa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0997, Page 129
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- About fifty years ago there lived in the townland of Bogeskey a poor woman, who had three sons named Benjamin, James, and John. John was the eldest, and his mother wanted him to get married. One night a poor woman knocked on the door looking for lodging. The woman of the house let her in and she told her that she had a son ready to be married. The old woman said, "As I came by the King's gate i saw a notice up" that, no one would marry his daughter unless someone who could land in his lawn in a boat without sea or water."(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Rudden
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stravicnabo, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Michael Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lurgananure, Co. Cavan
