School: Dromseanbhoth (B.)
- Location:
- Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Dubhda
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- (continued from previous page)were left but father and son. Then came the end of the sad story; the father died after eating raw cabbage stumps, and his son carried him on his back across to Cuillin bog and buried him about a hundred yards from the bridge. When he completed the burial he planted a small white thorn bramble on his father's grave and said a few prayers for his departed soul. Without even turning to look at the old home he tramped along the roads and by some means reached America, where he became a prosperous business man.Any boy visiting the Shannon at the Galley Bridge can see the white(continues on next page)
- Collector
- P.E. Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Reynolds
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim