School: Baile na nGarraidhthe (roll number 13618)
- Location:
- Ballygarries, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: T. Ó Tuairisc
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0104, Page 126
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- (continued from previous page)that she must be burned on the morrow.
Poor Elise was lead from the palace dungeon. The nettles she had gathered in the churchyard were [?] threwn on the floor for a bed ad the coats were given her for a covering. Towards evening she heard a rustle of wings. She looked at her small window[?] against it a wild swan flapped its wings. It was her youngest brother. He had found her at last.
She sobbed with grief for she knew that [?] to morrow she must die and only one night to finish the coats. she set to work and when the sun rose she was lead, led to a cart(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornfield, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Rourke
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Cornfield, Co. Mayo
