School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 09_033
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“One night there was a woman going to see a weaver.”
(continued from previous page)met was a husband & wife who used be always quarelling in this world and God punished them by changing them into pigs.
He told her to go home and stay at home until the cock would crow at five o'clock in the morning then you can go your way in the name of God. The first priest you will meet tell him to say one Mass for me because I forgot to say it.
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“About one hundred years ago there was a man living in Aran and he was going to the fair or Ardrahan.”
About one hundred years ago there was a man living in Aran and he was going to the fair of Ardrahan. He had a calf going. He was over near newtown when he met a coach approaching him. The coach knocked the calf and the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Bridget Fordham
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Daniel Fordham
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Kilcolgan, Co. Galway