School: Mount Plunkett (roll number 8096)
- Location:
- Mountplunkett, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Bheirn
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Once upon a time there lived an old woman in the country. Whenever she put down a fire it would fill the house with smoke. One day she saw a fortune teller passing the road and she asked her how would she stop the house from being filled with smoke. The fortune teller told her to give her a half a crown and she would tell her. She gave her the half crown and the fortune teller said "Put down no fire and you will have no smoke."- Informant
- Patrick Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Killeenrevagh, Co. Roscommon
- There was once a man who was looking for work. A man told him to go to another man named Denis O Dowd, a weaver. As he was going along the road he was overtaken by a man with a horse and cart. He told him his story and the man drove him until he came to the(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Michael J. Cunningham
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 35
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Killeenrevagh, Co. Roscommon