School: Baile na nGarraidhthe (roll number 13618)
- Location:
- Ballygarries, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: T. Ó Tuairisc
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- There was once a man who used to me always breaking stones. At that time an appointed man used to go around to pay the soldiers, and the way he travelled was on horse back.
This man lost the money one day, and the man who was breaking stones found it. He was a fool of a man, and when he told his wife about the money he got lost, she sent him to school next day.
All the scholars were laughing at him because he was an old man, and he did not mind (him) them.(continues on next page)- Collector
- James Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cornfield, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Rourke
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Cornfield, Co. Mayo