School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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- (continued from previous page)money, and the fool didn't she give him three hundred pounds for an old magpie & he went out & sold the skin for a few bob. He went home & told Huddon & Duddon the he got three hundred pounds for the skin. What did they do but killed their own horses and when they went to sell the skin they only got a few shillings for it. When they were going home they planned to kill Daniel and get all his money, & begor Daniel was inside the ditch listening. He went home & told his mother, & they swopped beds and didnt they kill the mother instead of Daniel. The next day Daniel brought the mother & left next a well outside a Pub & he went in. He told the Barmaid to bring her in & give her a drink. He told her she was a bit deaf to give her a chuck & she gave her a chuck & she fell into the well. The Barmaid gave him two hundred pound not to tell any one & when he was going home, he heard the delightful(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Cass
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Woodquarter, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- James Kinsella
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny