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   head she let a big roar. Then he married her and she knitted a waistcoat for him. The next day he wore it to the fair and he met a man. The man said to him "I thought no one could knit like that but a daughter of mine and she died. Then the Carolan man told him the story.

   

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2. How the Carolans Got the Money

   

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   Long ago there lived a man in Co Mayo named Michael Carolan. One night as he was going along by the seashore he met three men carrying a coffin. He said to them that he never saw three men carrying a coffin before, that he always saw four. He said he would help them with it. when he went under the coffin the three men went away and left it to himself. He took the lid off it and found a young girl in it. She was alive, He took her home to his mother. She was very pleased with her. That night twelvemonths he went to

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máirghréad Seoighe

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Séamus Seoighe

   Relation

   Unknown

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

   Occupation

   Feirmeoir

   Address

   Rockfleet, Co. Mayo