School: Killeigh
- Location:
- Killeigh, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T. Mac Amhalghaidh
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- (continued from previous page)the trace of one in Killeigh ever after.
- Once there a time there was a king who wanted to get married. He made a plan that he would let all the girls of the place dress up in their best clothes and the one that would be the nicest dressed he would take her as his wife. So there were two step sisters. There was one of them very ugly and the other was nice. The mother liked the nice one the best. So when she heard what the king had said she got the nice girl some stuff to make a dress and she did not get the ugly(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sadie Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Kirwan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinvally, Co. Offaly