School: Crosserlough
- Location:
- Crosserlough, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: L. Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0993, Page 402
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- Once upon a time there lived three sisters and they were married to three men.
One day the three women were pulling flax in a field along a road.
They got a valuable ring and they fell out about which of them would have it.
The said that they would leave it to the first who would come to the road to settle it.
The first that came the road was a big beggar woman with a bag on her back and they told her what they got.
She told them which ever of them would make the best fool of their men would have the ring.
One of the women when she went home told the man to come to town to buy some clothes for the children.
When she got him in the town she set him drunk.
She got him to their own gate with a struggle and when they arrived at the gate who was at it but a beggar man with old raggy clothes on him and a bag on his back.
They went and stripped the man and put the beggar-man's clothes on him and went off about his buisness.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Owen Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Latnadronagh, Co. Cavan
