School: Cnoc Crochaire (roll number 4955)
- Location:
- Knockcroghery, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Brian Ó hUidhir
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- One evening there was a man weaving and he wanted strong feathers out of a gooses wing to put in loops. He could get none around his own place. So he had to go a mile or so to a house to get some. When he got to the house it was about nine o'clock and he sat down talking for an hour.
Then he and some person went out in the field to catch the geese to get the feathers. When he was ready to go home it was very dark and late. He crossed the fields home and when he was getting over a stile something like a barrel rolled after him. It followed him and sometimes it used(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen English
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corboley, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Martin Morris
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corboley, Co. Roscommon
