School: Oylegate (roll number 5918)
- Location:
- Maolán na nGabhar, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Braoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 189
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- (continued from previous page)he gave Jack a lantern and ever since he is known as "Jack the lantern".
- Once upon a time an old woman and an old man lived in a lonely place. This old woman had two pigs and she found it very difficult to boil the food for them because she had no bellows to blow the fire. She made up her mind when the pigs would be fit to sell she would buy a bellows. When the pigs were fit to sell the old man brought them to the market. The old woman told him to bring home a bellows with the money. The old man went into a shop and asked the shopkeeper for a bellows as it was halfire[?] wood. The shopkeeper(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sadie Harpur
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile na Sláine, Co. Loch Garman
- Informant
- Mrs Cullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile na Sláine, Co. Loch Garman
