School: Gort an tSiúrdáin (roll number 14534)
- Location:
- Gort Mhic Shiurdáin, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Módhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0106, Page 516
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- (continued from previous page)not go into the palace with him. [?] preferred to stay in the old one. He took care of her and gave her everything while she lived. When she got weak and unable to leave her bed, Solomon used to send a man to bring him news in the morning how she spent the night. The bargain he made with the man was to give him five pounds for the night and to be back before sunrise with the news. The man that would bring him the news that his mother was dead his head would be cut off.
The old lady was very weak and her death was supposed to be this night. The lot fell on a widow's son to keep vigil. He had no option but to go. On his way he couldn't stop.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile Bacach, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- John Walsh
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Bacach, Co. Mhaigh Eo
