School: Béal Átha Grean (roll number 9820)
- Location:
- Ballyagran, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dónall Ó Cuill
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- (continued from previous page)and keep it pressed on to him. In this way they took the coffin to Castletown Churchyard. When they went back home a poor woman was dead and they took her corpse in the same manner.A woman was baking meal bread. She took a cake out of the oven and laid it on the window to cool. A young man came in and when he saw the cake he couldn't take his eyes off the cake. When the woman left the kitchen for a moment he took the cake and went off. He was found dead a little way down the road with a little scrap of the cake left in his hand. A man and his wife went from Gurteen down to the "Yellow Islands" 6 miles away and brought a bag of turnips on their backs(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Ned Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
