School: Clochar na Trócaire, Baile an Róba
- Location:
- Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0101, Page 167
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- One day a woman was passing by a graveyard inside Ballinrobe at about six of clock. When she came near the gates of the graveyard a man walked right up to her and said. “Do I owe you anything?” the woman got such a fright that she was not able to answer him and when she looked again he was gone.
She hurried home and when she was about half an hour a boy came in and ordered a dozen and a half of bread. The woman was astonished and she asked what he wanted all the bread for, and he said for the wake. The woman said “What wake?” He said “For the wake of so and so.” Then the woman asked what time he died and he said “about half past three. The woman fainted and when she awoke she(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maura Mulrooney
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Mulrooney
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo
