School: Bunninadden
- Location:
- Bun an Fheadáin, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: John J. Rochford
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- (continued from previous page)maker and sang
"I had a mother who loved me well.
Better than tongue can ever tell,
I had another who hated me.
She killed me and buried me under a tree".
He said " If you sing it again I will give you a pair of shoes. He sang it again and he gave him a pair of shoes. The robin then went to a milestone man and he sang:
"I had a mother who loved me well.
Better than tongue can ever tell.
I had another who hated me.
She killed me and buried me under a tree".
He said "If you sing it again I will give you a milestone". He sang it again and he gave him a milestone to hang around his neck. The father of the child went into his wife and he said I will not be happy without my child for the rest of my life.
Margaret Gallagher
Bunninadden.
Got from:-
Mrs. Ellen Gallagher,
Achonry,
Bunninadden.
- Collector
- Margaret Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bun an Fheadáin, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Mrs Ellen Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Achadh Conaire, Co. Shligigh
