School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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- (continued from previous page)with a cliabh on his back made of rods and he told the man that he was for about eleven or twelve days trying to bring in daylight to the new house and he could not.
He kept on walking until he got another foolish man. He found this man standing up on a table with the sweat dropping down of him and a new trousers in his hands.
The man that was looking for the fools asked him what was he doing. He said that the tailor gave him the new trousers two days before and that he told him to jump into it and that he was trying to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Nolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knappagh Beg, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs A. Nolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knappagh Beg, Co. Mayo
