School: Sraithín (roll number 13617)
- Location:
- Sraheen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0088C, Page 01_004
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- There were two boys one-time living with their step-mother, Jack, and Tom. She was very cruel, she used to beat them. So one day a man came for Tom, he said, "he would not go without Jack, that any-place he would be, Jack would be." So the man went away, without Tom. When he went their step-mother beat them very hard. So they went out, they came to a kiln, it was burning, they went in, and they layed down beside it, they fell fast asleep, in it, they were asleep, in the morning(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Eibhlín Ní Uidhir
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sraheen, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Tomás Ó Cíosóg
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Sraheen, Co. Mayo
