School: Órán Mór (B) (roll number 4506)
- Location:
- Oranmore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Micheál Ó agus Máire Bean Uí Shuilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0032, Page 0441
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“There was a woman who lived in the village of Ballinageeha.”
There was a woman who lived in the village of Ballinageeha. It happened this day that she was in a hurry going to the market in the town of Loughrea with flannel. This night a big crowd came in to her house at about twelve o'clock and they started to spin it. When it was spun they warped it wove it, and thickened it, and then it was ready to go to the market in the morning. All the men left at three o' clock in the morning when the cock crew. The wman decided to tell the priest, so she did and he told her to spread it in three corners of the graveyard. But the woman did not. She decided to sell it at the market. She left this morning about three o'clock as she thought but it(continues on next page)
