School: Radharc na Sionainne (roll number 16477)
- Location:
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Nóirín Ní Uiginn
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- (continued from previous page)with his wife and he told her the yarn about the swan and then he wished he was on the same hill again. He wished he had five bags of gold and he got them and he put four bags under him on the chair and one behind him but when he was starting off the bag of gold that was behind and himself fell off and the chair and the other bags went to where his wife was and when she saw the chair and no man on it she wished she was with her husband and she came to where he was. He was asleep on the bag of gold and the cows had him nearly eaten and his wife had to stick him under the ears with a pin to waken him and they threw the bags of gold on the chair and wished they were at home and they came home.
After many years the became very poor and the wife died and after many more years the man died.
- Informant
- Pádraig Ó Dáibhis
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Maddysrulla, Co. Roscommon
