School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)
- Location:
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Thos. Mc Gettrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0184, Page 0180
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- (continued from previous page)the barrow. The gentleman asked him what he was doing and the man said I left no door in this house and I want to put one in it. The gentleman went on another bit and he saw another man beating a cow with a stick. The gentleman asked him what was he beating the cow for, and he said, "Do you not see the fine grass growing on top of the house. The gentleman went on another bit and he saw a man with an over all hung between two trees and he was trying to leap into it. He met the three fools worse than the man and the wife, and their daughter. He went back and married the girl, and they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael P. Scanlon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigans Upper, Co. Sligo
