School: Roxboro
- Location:
- Roxborough, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Ruairc
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- There lived a man and a woman together in a small hut in Roscommon. They were very poor. One day they said they would go to the fair to buy a goat. As they were going along the road they saw a woman sitting on a heap of stones nursing a child. She asked the woman who was going to the fair would she mind the child for a few minutes. The woman she would. She took the child and began to nurse her. After a while a man came along the road. He was the son of the woman who was minding the child before. He was a pickpocket and he thought that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Delamere
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Joseph Delamere
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Roxborough, Co. Roscommon
