School: Cloonmorris (roll number 12496)
- Location:
- Cloonmorris, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Michael J. Conboy
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- Long ago when there were no roads a man went for a priest on a sick call. When the man and the priest were coming back they had to cross through a certain farm There were two robbers taking sheep. One man was guarding the pass across the river and the man was going to carry the priest across on his back. When the robber saw the man and the priest on his back he thought it was his comrade with the sheep on his back and he said, "Is he fat?". The man got such a fright that he let the priest fall into the river, and ran away and said, "Fat or lean here he is to you."
- Collector
- Teresa Beirne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edercloon, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Patrick Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 42
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Clooncolligan, Co. Longford
