School: Baile na nGarraidhthe (roll number 13618)
- Location:
- Ballygarries, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: T. Ó Tuairisc
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- (continued from previous page)college and the professor showed it to him. He asked him if he had a professor of signs and he said he had. He was away on holidays and he would not be back for three months. The prince said by the time that he would have all Ireland travelled it would take him three months. So he went off. When we went the professor called the boys together and told them what the prince said. "What will I do now" he said. "I have no professors of signs."
"I know of a fellow" said one of the boys, "And his name is Paddy Murphy"
He has only one eye. He has no education but he is very clever and we would have him trained by that time. So they started to train Paddy and they dressed him up. When the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornfield, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Walsh
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Cornfield, Co. Mayo
