School: Convent Girls' School, Ballymote
- Location:
- Ballymote, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Sr. M. Patrick
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- An Old Story
About the year 1878 a man named Thomas was going home from the town of Boyle in the County Roscommon late at night. A party of horseman got up to him on the road about two miles from town in a lonely part of the road. The leader of the band of horsemen pulled up alongside of Thomas and as Thomas was of a social nature he praised the horse that the men was riding and he says "I wish you would have a horse to carry me home."
The leader answered I have no horse but look at that bull-calf after you he will carry you home, if you can hold your tongue but if you speak he will tumble you off and(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen Barnes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymote, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- J.J. Coleman
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tawnytaskin, Co. Roscommon