School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)

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   Then later on there was a car going into the town and the man saw the bag of flour on the side of the road and he thought that it was someone lost it. So he sold it in a baker's shop. Then the day after there was a batch of bread made out of the bag of flour and it was put in the window for sale. There was a woman passing by and she saw the hot bread steaming in the window and she went in and bought a loaf of bread to eat it going home. Then when she was outside the town she put her hand into her basket to get the loaf of bread there was no bread in it but a wooden plate and she caught the plate and threw it on the side of the road. The later on there was another woman coming from town and she picked up the wooden plate and took it home to feed the hens on it. There was a rich man lived this woman that got the wooden plate and he had one son. The rich man got sick and he said to his son that he wished to see

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick O' Dowd

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Moatquarter, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Mrs O' Donnell

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   76

   Address

   Moatquarter, Co. Tipperary