School: Bloomfield (roll number 10382)
- Location:
- Lavally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Cathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0179, Page 205
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- There was once an man who lived in Balloumhán. One of his neighbours died and he could not work for three days He did not like to see the oats gone past reaping and so one bright night he went out repaing it. He had about one sheaf reaped when a white cat jumped before him and would not let him reap any more. As he had to stay in the house until the neighbour was buried.
- Once a man came into a house during the famine. he saw a head of cabbage on a stool and he went and ate it all.
Next day he was got dead about one hundred yards from the house. - Collector
- Nora Mc Goldrick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonagh, Co. Sligo
