School: Tattenclave

Location:
Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
B. Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 152

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    1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. people
        1. robbers (~423)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Phil Beagon
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    11
    Address
    Calliagh, Co. Monaghan
  2. A long time ago there was a man working with a farmer. When he would be coming home from selling something for his master he would be always robbed. One day when he was coming home from the fair and he had a pistol with him, he was coming near home when a man came from behind the ditch with a gun and said to the man: "Your money or your life. "The man said: If you put a bullet in my coat, I will give you it. The man who had the gun put a hole in his coat with a bullet. The man said to him to put a bullet in his vest also, and the man said he
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