School: Ardagh (roll number 15035)
- Location:
- Ardach, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: L. Ó Maolghuala
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0768, Page 250
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- Once upon a time there was a man going home from rambling on a Saturday night. It was on a winters night at about twelve o'clock. It was as dark that you would not see your hand. He started to light matches to get his way and when he had all his matches wasted he kept going on and on not knowing where he was going. He started from Keel and he was going the whole night through fields and bogs across hedges and ditches and when day-light came he was going still and not knowing where he was. After some time he found himself in Tashinny and the people going to Mass as it was Sunday morning. When the people were coming out from Mass some of the people who knew him wanted to bring him home but he would not go with them as he was astray still. So after some time he started back again and landed home at about ten o'clock that night. The people of the house did not know what happened him so he told them the whole story.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Una Farrell
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs B. Farrell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Cartrún Garbh, Co. an Longfoirt
