School: Cromghlinn (C) (roll number 15411)
- Location:
- Crumlin, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Óbáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0082, Page 366
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“There was a man long ago, himself and his wife and son who lived in a cottage...”
(continued from previous page)hilly field before them and they never gave him a rest until a graveyard where the lads found him. Pat was never the same again after that night. He pined away day by day till his head got a bit queer, and sometimes couldn't think of a bit at all even his own name. He couldn't eat a morsel of food some days and he used to be rambling away for miles from his home till at long last about a year after didn't he stay away all together and there was no trace of him high nor low. Three long years went by and no tale of Pat. Till one May Eve Jim was taking a walk near a river when up comes a little woman all of a sudden she having a green cloak on her and a long hazel switch in her hand "Jim" says she "I'm telling you to go in quest of your father. His eighteen(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Nic Aoda
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Laragh More, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Micheál Ó Feinneadha
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Laragh More, Co. Galway