School: Cúl Árann (Clochar)
- Location:
- Cúl Árann, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: An tSr Fionnbharr Nic Chárthaig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0020, Page 0038
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- (continued from previous page)bed and he waited there all night and still nothing happened to frighten him. The second night again he went in the castle and he was not long in bed when up comes a man with a bucket of fish and he threw the fish in beside him but still he did not mind.
The third night again he went to sleep in the castle and at midnight four men came in and they laid a coffin down beside him and then they left it in the room. As soon as they were gone. Handy Andy got up and he said to himself that he would see what was in the coffin immediately he set to work. When he was finished he raised the lid of the coffin and what was in it but a young girl then he got the rent free because he had saved the girls life
- Collector
- Annie Delaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Mhóin Ard, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Informant
- Thomas Delaney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Mhóin Ard, Co. na Gaillimhe
