School: Ráth Morgáin (roll number 15966)
- Location:
- Ráth Muireagáin, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Cholmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0130, Page 444
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“There was a poor man living near a gentleman. He had a little son.”
(continued from previous page)he saw the man but let on he was drunk. The man brought the bottles into the stable and they started drinking the bottles until they fell drunk The lad got up and brought the two horses with him The gentleman was angry with him when the two horses were gone He told the father in the morning unless the boy would steal the sheet that was under him self and the wife that night that the last of his stealing was done The boy then went to a burial ground and dug up a boy that was buried in it and took him out of the coffin and put a suit of clothes on him and got a ladder and let him down the chimney The gentleman had his gun loaded and the lamp lighted and when he saw the boy(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jack Conroy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ráth Muireagáin, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Pat Healy
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Na Fáilíní, Co. Mayo