School: Baile Lochnáin
- Location:
- Riverstown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Domhnaill
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“Old stories were much more common in days gone by they are nowadays.”
(continued from previous page)barn but when they were in, he set fire to it. He went in then and went to bed. He could not sleep but in the morning a servant came and told him the rats had eaten all his corn. So he descended the stairs and he found pictures eaten out of their frames. After a while they entered his room and ate himself. Once upon a time there was a farmer and he had many men. He thought they were all honest but one of them was not. The butter was stolen from the farmer day by day and he didn't know what had become of it so he thought the best thing was to hide in the dairy and see for himself..(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Treasa Ní Gealbháin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Riverstown, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs B. Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Riverstown, Co. Tipperary