School: Órán Mór (B) (roll number 4506)
- Location:
- Oranmore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Micheál Ó agus Máire Bean Uí Shuilleabháin
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“There was a man named John Burke who lived in the village of Monamore in the parish of Oranmore.”
There was a man named John Burke who lived in the village of Monamore in the parish of Oranmore. He had a habit of being out every night card-playing. This night he met a funeral on his way home. They asked him to help them to carry the corpse so he did and then they all disappeared and left him the coffin, so he took the coffin home with him to his own house and left it down on the floor. He put down a big fire. He took the lid off the coffin and what was in the coffin but a fine young woman and with the heat of the fire she started to stir. He took her out of the coffin and put her(continues on next page)
