School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)

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   singing. Then the day after she took up the wooden plate and washed it and she put it in the room. Then the night after the young man came down to the house and he heard the singing again and it was twice nicer than the two first songs he heard. Then the young man said to her "you have some-one in the room to-night" and she said she had no-one in the room. So she went into the room to let him see that there was no one there and the singing was coming from where the wooden plate was and and she said that was a wooden plate that she got on the road and she left it down out of her hand and the song stopped. Then when the young man went out on the road to go home he met a woman on the road and she asked him how is his father and the young man said that he was bad and he said "I do not know you". Then she said I know you and your father wants you to bring him your sweet heart until he will 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