School: Roxboro
- Location:
- Roxborough, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Ruairc
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- Long ago the old people were so kind and generous that if the worced begger passing the road came in and asked for a night's lodgings they would give it to him.
Well it happened on one occasion that and an old woman came in to a certain house and she asked for lodgings and she got it. There was a person dead in the district the same evening and the man of the house thought his wife woudl not be afraid when she had the old woman to keep her company so he went to the corpse house.
The two woman stayed sitting by the fire trying to pass the time by talking and laughing, until the husband would come. Well at about mid night the woman of the house noticed a trousers under the other womans skirt, and she knew it was a man dressed in woman's clothes.
The woman was was so much frightened that she ran up in the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Raymond Boyd
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killarney, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Boyd
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killarney, Co. Roscommon
