School: Baile an tSléibhe (roll number 1524)
- Location:
- Cornalee, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eibhlín Níc Coisdeabha
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- (continued from previous page)little while. But she never spoke a word for 12 months.A year passed by. The next Nov might he passed the same road and he heard voices. He hid under a wall. The voices were saying "This is where the "buachaill" got the lobster this night 12 months, and she never spoke a word since and she never will until he gives her three spoons of water out of Shaun Donnalain's well. "Well, said the young man to himself "it won't be longuntil I knock a 'gradle o' talk' out o' her" He went home and he brought her to the well and gave her a drink out of it and coming back she gave him plenty of chat. She told them all about her 'hershrell', how she came there. His mother asked her would she like to see her people and she said she would. At night they went to her parents house, about five miles from where she lived. Then they both set out at dusk. And when they rached there the man stood at the door and asked for lodgin, for himself and his companion. The(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Paddy Rafferty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cuilleenirwan, Co. Roscommon
