School: Urlár
- Location:
- Urlaur, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán de Buitléir
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- (continued from previous page)stop in spite of the fire. So that next night there was wind and the fire was stoped started. Micky went out singing and the boys threw a stack of straw on them and the fire into Micky's garden. Micky would swear until the day he died that it was the music that threw the stack on the man with the fire. So the next morning the man wanted is oats and Micky wold not give it to him. All the neighbours came and made agreement and said that there would be no other fire on a windy night but the lost his oats.
- Collector
- Máire Ní Flaitile
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aghadiffin, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- James Cafferky
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghadiffin, Co. Mayo