School: Dún Gar (Frenchpark) (roll number 3961)
- Location:
- Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Mághnuis
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- (continued from previous page)from them. They knew it was not a sheep for it was too dark in colour.
They mustered up courage to investigate. When they reached the heap they found it was the young man who had been sent out hours before that. He was bathed in sweat cold though the night was and he told them he had been
travelling round the field ever since he left home but could not find the
stile or even the boundary wall and had at last fallen down with sheer exhaustion in the spot where they had found him.
There is another field with a "stray on it" in Sheepwalk. I casually
referred to it on page 6. A man who suffered badly from this stray is still alive.
There is a herd's house between this field and the churchyard. The back door is never opened. They know better.
An old woman who lived in this house had never to wash the clothes. She left them outside this back door and always found them washed for her in the morning. She didn't open the back door though, she went round. Old Biddy was often asked was this so. I asked her myself. But she always managed to shuffle out of answering it.
It is rather strange that no person not related(continues on next page)
