School: Dún na Lochlannach (roll number 11987)
- Location:
- Lisduff, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Mhainín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0060, Page 0035
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- The place where our stable is built is called "Patch Larkin's corner". An old miser lived there and his name was Patch Larkin.
He used to starve himself and go about in rags. Every penny he would get, he would hold it until he would have a sovereign. This he would put into an old cannister.
Day and night he would keep it strapped inside his clothes.
When he would go to a station in the village, he would give a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Raftery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Loughrea, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Michael Raftery
- Gender
- Male
