School: Cluain Féinne (roll number 13710)
- Location:
- Cloonfane, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Mac Conghamhna
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- (continued from previous page)a bottle of medicine before so he came to the conclusion that it was the patient that was to be shaken insead of the medicine. So after the woman had got a great shaking they gave her the medicine. In about an hour afterwards the poor woman was found dead. Once upon a time three Achill men went to England to earn their living there. They did not know the English language but they meant to learn it because they could not find any work. One day each of them went different directions to learn English and after a few days they would meet at a certain place. When they arrived at this place each of them told what they had heard. The first man said he heard a shopkeeper saying "A box of matches". The second said he heard a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cappulcorragh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Pat Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cappulcorragh, Co. Mayo
