School: Turloch (roll number 10286)
- Location:
- Turlough, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0120, Page 203
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- Once there was a man working on a road. He found a bag of gold sovereigns, and he thought they were buttons.
He said to himself I will bring them home to Biddy. Biddy was the wife, and anything she told him, he believed it.
He told her put holes in the sovereigns, and they would make buttons. She took the bad, and hid it.
Next morning the wife was up very early. She took a churn of butter-milk, and threw it outside on the street.
The husband got up, and when he looked out he saw the butter-milk. He asked where did it come from. Biddy said it rained a shower of butter-milk.
Then he went to his work. One day he met a man. The man asked him did he find anything(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Gannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynew, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Mc Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Ballynew, Co. Mayo
