School: An Gleann (roll number 14113)
- Location:
- Glen, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Ciaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0179, Page 393
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- (continued from previous page)for a half an hour and when she was asleep the girl milked the goat and then started to eat. As soon as the girl had eaten teh table disappeared and little one eye wakened, went in towards the house and told the stepmother that little two eye put her asleep and she could not see her. On the following evening she sent little three eye with her.
She thought she had little three eye asleep but before she had eaten and the goat milked, little three eye got up ran in and told the old step mother what she was doing. Then the stepmother stuck the goat in the heart and she died after for the want of milk. Little two eye got a job in a Kings house, and after-wards had to give alms to her other two sisters.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O' Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drummacool, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Michel Conlon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Drummacool, Co. Sligo
