School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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- Collector
- Daithí O Ceanntabhail
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Seán O Néill
- Gender
- Male
- There was once upon a time a bad daughter-in-law who was a very bad head to her father-in-law. She used to starve him and scold him and be always at him. One day a neighbour put him up to count pieces of crocks (broken crockery or earthenware) where she could see him. He did so and she thought twas money he was counting and from that day out she was dying about him
- There was a man coming from Limerick to Croom one night and he went astray. he was following a light all night and at dawn he was in Caher-con-liss
- In the parish of Crecora there was a certain house and twas on the passage between two forts. It so happened that the couple that lived in that house had a very big family, and it so happened too, that as they grew(continues on next page)