School: Cloonacool (roll number 4802)
- Location:
- Cloonacool, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Blioscáin
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- (continued from previous page)too came the same well. The dog came up again out of the well and asked for a piece of the cake. She too refused. He again dipped his tail in the well and it became as red as blood. A few years later the youngest little girl said to her mother that she must go and seek her fortune - that her other two sisters were gone and there was no account of them. So the mother made two more cakes and she asked her which would she take the big one and her curse or the small one and her blessing. She said that she would take the small one and her blessing. All the time her mother kept blessing her. She too came to the well and met the dog and asked a piece of the cake of her which he got willingly. He told her of her two sistes how they were in two pillars of salt above at the kings castle
He gave her a magic rod and told her that it belonged to the king & when she would leave it on her sistes they would get up and walk. So when she toutched them with the rod they got up and walked. Then Maire Babbin brought them to a big castle and got a job for them. She then(continues on next page)
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- Bridget Johnston
- Gender
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- John Devaney
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- Grandparent
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