School: Turloch (roll number 10286)
- Location:
- Turlough, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Maolmhuaidh
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- (continued from previous page)asked him how did he sell it, and he said three pence a package. Then the butcher asked him how it was used. The Irishman told him to catch the flea and put a pinch under his (the flea's) left eye. The butcher said that when he would catch the flea he could kill him without the powder. "You are a butcher," said the Irishman, "but everybody could not do it."
- There was a widow woman living with herself, and she was very old. It happened she got very sick and she had nobody to send for the priest. In the middle of the night a knock came to the priest's door. The priest's servant got up and opened the door, and she saw two lights on each side of the door. She(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Mc Donnell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meelick, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Donnell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Meelick, Co. Mayo
