School: Dealgain (roll number 11770)
- Location:
- Dalgin, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Breandán Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0041, Page 132
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- (continued from previous page)have Abbey Hession buried well and to put a brácaís on him. Next evening the king and the Queen and the cook came to the house. Before they came Mrs Hession looked out and there she saw them coming and Abbey saw them coming and he was wakened and she said "now we are caught and what will we do and Abbey told her to come in under the brácaís and they might give us 500 pieces more when they would see both of us dead and in she came and shut her eyes and pretended to be dead and left the door open for them to come in they saw both of them dead the king "the mother must have died with grief of Abbey" and the Queen said "no" it was Abbey that died with grief of his mother and they kept arguing like that until the king said that he would give five hundred more pieces of gold to the one that would tell him which of them died the first and Abbey heard them and rose up his head and said "I died first sir".
- Informant
- Johnny Flaherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Milltown, Co. Galway
