School: Gort an tSiúrdáin (roll number 14534)

Location:
Gortjordan, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Módhráin
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    and the man was a year there and he thought he was only a night. The horse came home and a dead man in the cart as they thought. They said at home that the robbers took the money off him, and killed him. All the neighbours gathered and buried him. In a years time his wife got married to her servant boy. She told the priest that she was getting married to her servant boy. She told him she had no money to give him only a pig. The priest said he would do with the pig. Then the woman and the servant boy got married. A few days after the priest said to the servant boy lest the woman would break her word let you go for the pig
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    Folktales index
    AT1792A: The Priest's Pig
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Glynn
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cahermaculick, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Patrick O' Brian
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cahermaculick, Co. Mayo