School: Shrule (roll number 7795/7796)
- Location:
- Shrule, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0038C, Page 07_011
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- Once two brothers went to England looking for work. They were lodging with an old woman. They could not get any work and they were cutting the table on the woman. One day the woman asked them why would they not join the guards. The older brother, Pat said he would go the next day to the man who was taking them on. When he went the man asked him what weight was the moon and he did not know it. Then he asked him how many stars were in the sky and he did not know(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paul Bohan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Bohan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
