School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)
- Location:
- Thomastown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Dubhlaine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0576, Page 429
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- (continued from previous page)all dead. So no-body looked for the job anymore for they were afraid. Then there was another boy in the place and he wanted to get married and he had no money. So he went to the owner of the castle to ask the job of him and the owner said he would give him fifty pounds to stay one night in the castle. Then the boy said he would if he got a hundred and the owner said "All right for he thought he would not earn it. So he gave him plenty of whiskey and pipes and tobacco and a big fire. Then the boy went off to the castle and put down a big fire and brought down the table to the fire and put the whiskey and pipes and tobacco on the table and put a chair at each side of the table and then he sat down and began to smoke for himself. About twelve o clock he heard great noise and he looked up and he saw a leg hanging down from the ceiling and when he looked again it was gone. Then when the owner came in the morning the man was. The owner asked him then(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick O' Dowd
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moatquarter, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs O' Donnell
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Moatquarter, Co. Tipperary
