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  1. Mayo (15)

School: Sraithín

Location
Sraheen, Co. Mayo
Teacher
Pádhraic Ó Croidhean

Stories

  1. A Story

    “There was once a giant in this country. One day this girl was spreading out clothes.”

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridget Brogan
    Informant
    Martin Brogan
    Age
    60
    Occupation
    farmer

  3. A Story

    “There was once a woman who was going out for turf and two nuns passed her out and they stood a while and had a chat with her and they asked her the way to Pontoon.”

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridget Brogan
    Informant
    Mrs Bridget Holmes
    Age
    45
    Occupation
    farmer's wife

  4. A Story

    “Once there were two men going on a journey and when the came to Seefin one of the men said now we are at Seefin and we won't feel going the rest of the way and a voice answered them and said. It is not Seefin but it is Sheefin.”

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridget Brogan
    Informant
    William Brogan
    Age
    55
    Occupation
    farmer

  5. A Story

    “There was once a woman coming up from Knockmore and when she was passing by a limekiln a horse came out and put his two feet up on her shoulders and she had to drag him to the top of the hill and he came off there and the woman fainted.”

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridget Brogan
    Informant
    Pat Flynn
    Age
    53
    Occupation
    farmer

  6. A Story

    “There was once two boys in a house and one of them went to a raffle and when he was gone the other boy put a sheet round him and lay at the graveyard and when the other boy was passing by the graveyard he frightened him and the other boy kept going and the boy that frightened him could not leave the place he was in and he died at the but of the graveyard.”

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridget Brogan
    Informant
    Nora Mc Hale
    Age
    60
    Occupation
    farmer's wife

  7. A Story

    “There was once two famers who had two brood mares grazing on a farm and it happened that both mares foaled the same night on the farm.”

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridget Brogan
    Informant
    Patrick Coleman
    Age
    45
    Occupation
    farmer