School: Caisleán Uí Liatháin (B.) (roll number 1867)
- Location:
- Castlelyons, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0381, Page 043
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- (continued from previous page)and she tried to reach it but couldn't.
The nobleman's son said that he would reach it. He bent over it head foremost and more than half his body was in when she caught him by the legs and threw him in - back, belly and bones. She closed the lid immediately and said "there you'll stay, till my husband and father-in-law come back to me safe and sound." The nobleman's son asked if he could send a message to his father and she said "yes". The message wasn't long gone to England when the Gobán and his son arrived home again safe and sound. Don't you think she was a clever woman, wasn't she worth twenty-one meals in a week?
- Collector
- Patsy O Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- David O Keeffe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Mechanic
- Address
- Castlelyons, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Andy
- Gender
- Male
