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School: Tiobraid Árann (B.) (roll number 1285)

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Tiobraid Árann, Co. Thiobraid Árann
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Floinn
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    “Many years ago there lived a woman in the Glen of Aherlow...”

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    Many years ago there lived a woman in the Glen of Aherlow whose name was Petticoat Loose. She used to deliver milk to th epoor people of the district. One day she killed her own son and that same day she out water in th emilk she was delivering in order to get mor emoney. The parish priest found out what she had done and told her that she was damned and that putting water in the milk was worse than killing her son. After that she was put into the Red Sea to drain it with a cup without a bottom as an act of Penance.
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    1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. neacha neamhshaolta agus osnádúrtha (~14,864)
        1. Petticoat Loose (~75)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Eatharlach, Co. Thiobraid Árann
    Collector
    Paddy Withero
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tiobraid Árann, Co. Thiobraid Árann
    Informant
    Mrs Withero
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tiobraid Árann, Co. Thiobraid Árann

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    “Not long ago there lived a man who had three sons.”

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    Not long ago there lived a man who had three sons. The eldest of the three sons was a gambler and used to do nothing but gamble and cheat the people of their money and their belongings. Not only in the day time used he gamble but also in the night and he used to say out nearly all the night. His father could get no good out of him so himself and a few neighbours planned to frighten him. Very late one dark night the boy was was going home. On his way home he had to pass a graveyard and he was passing it his father dressed in a white (sheet) with a white sheet over him rose up
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Paddy Withero
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tiobraid Árann, Co. Thiobraid Árann
    Informant
    Mr John Withero
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tiobraid Árann, Co. Thiobraid Árann