School: Scoil Mhuire, Béal Átha hAmhnais (roll number 11438)
- Location:
- Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: S.T. Ó Maolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 170
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“One night as a man was coming from town, walking, at about half past eleven, he was saw a light at Devlis.”
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“There is an old man living in Coogue in the parish of Knock who was very fond of cardplaying.”
There was an old man living in Coogue in the parish of Knock who was very fond of cardplaying. He was ready for visiting at six o'clock in the evening, and he would come home at twelve o'clock in the night.
Once upon a time two women lived in a very old house. One of them died and the other went to America, but she died shortly afterwards.
One of the rooms fell in so one night as the man from Coogue was coming home he saw the(continues on next page)