School: Cnoc an Éin Fhinn (Birdhill) (roll number 13991)
- Location:
- Cooleen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Meachair
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- (continued from previous page)skin and to bring it home again and the price of it. All the people at the fair were laughing at him. There was one clever girl listening on and she said she was able to do it. She got a shears and cut the wool off the skin, and then sold it. Then she gave the skin and the price of it to the boy. The boy then went home and gave the skin and the price of it to the Gobán Saor. The Gobán was very pleased and he sent his son looking after the girl. The girl said that she would come but she would not come in the day nor in the night, across the fields, not on the road. The gril came when it was dusk and she walked on the top of the ditch. The Gobán Saor was pleased and his son married her and they lived happy ever afterwards.
- My father remembers on one particular night about forty five years ago he was called to go to Killaloe as there was a train derailed. When the railing was finishing he started to walk home. It was near twelve o'clock midnight and just as he was coming near Forthenery he(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Teefey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coosane, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Michael Teefey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Occupation
- Railway worker
- Address
- Coosane, Co. Tipperary