School: Bundoracha (roll number 14331)
- Location:
- Bundorragha, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Siúbhán Bean Uí Bhúrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137D, Page 01_071
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- Once upon a time there lived a blacksmith in this place and there was something stolen from him. He told his wife that he would bore a halfpenny on the anvil and his wife begged him not to do so but he said he would and so he did and whatever witchcraft he worked the person who stole his property came there with it to the forge. No smith can do that unless his fourfathers were blacksmiths. The smith was the doctor and dentist in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Treasa Ní h-Oireachtaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Micheál Ó h-Oireachtaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
