School: Baile an Churraigh
- Location:
- Baile an Churraigh, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: A. L. Ó Maoileannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0015, Page 459
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- The SkullThere lived a man once and he went to this Funeral one day. He went into the graveyard and as he went along he gave a tip of his shoe to a skull and said - its many a potato you ate in your day. "If I did says the skull I'm going to eat with you tonight. The man began to shiver all over to think of such a thing. The skull said that he would meet him near a big bush in a place called "Guirtin a lin" Prospery, Toberroe Co. Galway. All went along very well and the both met that night and they went into a big house. There was a great table laid down before them and just as they were about to eat a woman came in and whipped all that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Donlon
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Martin Donlon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile an Churraigh, Co. na Gaillimhe
