School: Shrule (roll number 7795/7796)
- Location:
- Shrule, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)threw his coat over the nest. There were three eggs in the nest and there was something written on them but Pat or Mike could not read it because they had no education. They brought home the eggs and the bird and showed them to the goldsmith. What was written on them was who ever would eat the heart and liver of the bird would find a purse of gold under his head every morning. The goldsmith told Morans wife to kill the bird and to fry the heart and liver for him. While this was going on the goldsmith went out for a walk. Pat and Mike came(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cristeoir Ó Buachacháin
- Gender
- Male
