School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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- About ten years ago there lived a man named Burns in Masonbrook. He got married to an old widow called Mary Ann Leahy. The day after their marriage he went to work on the road near Loughrea. The wife was very lazy she saw her husband coming about a mile away in the afternoon. She put down the pan in order to have a few cuts of bacon cooked before he arrived. She went into the parlour to fill out a mug of(continues on next page)