School: An Muileann (roll number 9208)
- Location:
- Mullen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: B. Mac Siúrtáin
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- (continued from previous page)came home in the evening he had it thatched. The third day when he was going he told him that there was a bird's nest and three birds in it on the top of a glass tree in the garden and to climb it and have the birds for him when he would come home or he would behead him. He started to climb the tree and when he would be up a bit he would slip down again. The girl came out the third time and she cut off a bit of her small finger a gave it to him. She told him to rub it on the tree and he would be able to climb it. In the evening when he gave the birds to the man. The girl said he would(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lizzie Breslin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mr John Breslin
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Roscommon
