School: Sraithín (roll number 13617)
- Location:
- Sraheen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0088C, Page 07_006
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- There was a poor mother, and her son living in a backward village. He son's name wa Cormach MacTuachail One day Cormach was taking a walk and he met three men coming with a coffin. They asked him to go under one stick and to help them. Cormach would not help them. But he began fighting with them, and hunted them away. When he got them gone he took the lid of the coffin. And there was a girl in the coffin. She was alive, and he brought the girl home to his mother. and she was working with his mother every day.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Nóláin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sraheen, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Tomás Ó Ciasóg
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Sraheen, Co. Mayo
