School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- An Leithead, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0463, Page 149
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- There was an old travelling man, going around. he was noted for foretelling news. The people did not like him at all, because he used tell a lot of hard hardships that was going to happen in future to them. One day he called to a house where there was a child going to be born. The child was going to be born a certain hour, and the man said that if the child will be born on that hour, that all the hardships and troubles will be before him. He told the people of the house to go on their knees and pray that the child will be born ten minutes before or after that hour. The people of the house would not do it, but they started scolding the man. After awhile the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie M. O Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bun Átha, Co. Chiarraí
- Informant
- Mrs Nealie Jerry O' Sullivan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bun Átha, Co. Chiarraí
