School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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V A story.
There was once a widow and her son ,who were very fond of each other.The son used eat a terrible lot so his mother got too poor to feed him .The house wanted to be thatched ,so one day the son went to a neighbour for a "beart"of straw and he brought nothing to tie it.
When he reached the man he told him to go out to the shed for a rope.So he went and there were car -ropes and ploughing chains in it.He tied them alltogether ,and put all the cock of strawa upon his back and walked away with(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Keely
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Slieveanore, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Tim Rogers
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Slieveanore, Co. Clare
