School: Eaglais
- Location:
- Burren, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: S. Ó Mongaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0089, Page 061
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- Peg O Donnell
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- Female
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- Mrs O Donnell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Sarnaght, Co. Mayo
- Once upon a time there was a woman living alone in a house. She used never go to Mass. The priest asked her why she did not go to Mass. "O Father my hens would go if I went." The priest told her to put her hens into the house and shut the back and front doors; so she did. When she was at Mass awhile the person who was sitting beside her said her back door was opened and her hens were gone. She ran home saying "O my hens are gone"
