School: Corra-bheagáin (roll number 12206)

Location:
Corraveggaun West, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Pádhraic Mac Congamhna
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    Once upon a time there lived in a village a man and his wife.

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    buried him. When they had him buried they all went home except three old women who waited praying. They were not long there when they heard the man shouting up out of the grave that he would eat them. They ran home, and told his wife, and she said "let him stay there, when he would not do what he was told at first.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie Mc Hale
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tonybaun, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Anthony Mc Hale
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tonybaun, Co. Mayo