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 0036
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- (continued from previous page)shilling to the Priest, eat as much for his breakfast as three men, go home across, meet the Priest at the corner, and tell him that he hadn't the price of his dinner.
The Priest used to pity him and give him back the shilling.
When he was dying, he begged that the sovereigns would be put in a saucepan with water and that they should be boiled for him.
The woman who was minding him got a lump of yellow butter and put it in the saucepan instead. When it was boiled, she gave it to him. He drank every drop of it and died happy.
- Collector
- Patrick Raftery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Loughrea, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Michael Raftery
- Gender
- Male
