School: Punt Abhann (Pontoon)
- Location:
- Tawnaghmore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Anastasia Ní Chonaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0147, Page 382
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- Once upon a time there was a woman living in Cuing. She was a widow woman. She had a beautiful child.
One day the child got very sick. The woman sent for the doctor. The doctor came and he and he not know what was wrong with the child. Then the woman sent for another doctor but he could not do anything for the child. The poor woman did not know what to do.
One day an old woman came into the house. The widow told her about her child. The old woman said, “it is not your child you have in the cradle it is an old woman.” The widow said to the old woman “it is a shame for you to say that,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Mc Hale
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tawnaghmore, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Barrett
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Tawnaghmore, Co. Mayo
