School: Carn (roll number 12537)
- Location:
- Knocknashammer, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Miadhaigh
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was very heavy and Denis soon got very tired. When he was up near the graveyard he met two men who were also coming from rambling. Where are you going with that big stone on your back. Denis was surprised when he heard this.
The two men took the stone off his back and brought him into some house. He was sick for a week or two after that, but he is living yet and he is a fine healthy man.
In olden times there was a man in this parish who was a grave-digger and he had three sons. One day he was digging a grave and when he went home in the evening he left his pipe behind.
He asked his oldest son to go for it but he would not. He then asked his second oldest but he would'nt go either "I will go"(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mona Flynn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cuilmore, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Thomas Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Cuilmore, Co. Sligo
