School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0052
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- (continued from previous page)was very vexed when the goose made so much noise. The woman youst to be throwing a little stool at the goose. She did not feed the goose and the next morning the man was at the door again and he took the goose from the old woman and she became as poor as ever again.
- 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)
- Collector
- Christina Fahy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kylebrack West, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Patrick Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Kylebrack West, Co. Galway
