School: St Fiachra's Kilkenny (roll number 11750)
- Location:
- Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gealagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0855, Page 108
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“A man and an old woman had two sons. One of the sons was married away from the house.”
(continued from previous page)for when I'm in the coffin, I'll want them myself. I'll have them put around me in the coffin," she says, so he had to go home, and didnt get one penny from her. She died that day and was waked for two nights, and they buried her the third day. The woman that was allowed to wash her put the blankets around her. But say's he to his wife that woman doesnt want them. I'll take a blanket off her. Ones enough for her. Out he went, and away along the road. He had not gone far when he met a man going the same road. Is it any harm to ask you where you are going. Well no says he for my mother was buried to day.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Daisy Muldownes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Grevine East, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Patrick Cannon
- Gender
- Male