School: Killeenkere
- Location:
- Killinkere, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Ó Cléirigh
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- (continued from previous page)and she told him he could and if would stay with the little boy till she came from the well she said she would make some tea for him. The man was glad to hear of tea because he was hungry and the woman got a bucket and went to the well.
When she was only a few perches from the house the boy said "It is strange that you should come in here to light your pipe and you having matches in your pocket."
The man caught the boy by the back of the neck and said you are not "right" or you would not know I had a box of matches. Then the boy said that if the man would not harm him, or tell his mother he was not right he would play music for him. The boy went up the stairs and got a bagpipes and played the loveliest music ever the man heard.
- Collector
- Mary Glennon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisnahederna, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Jack Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Ardlow, Co. Cavan
