School: Páirc na Coille
- Location:
- Woodfield, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Énrí Ó Maolagáin
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- There lived long ago, an old man named Leydon, in the parish of Killmore County Westmeath. The people round there liked him greatly. Immediately when he died, the people got a blind piper and had him playing at the dead man's head. They had to much mischief and a few men decided to go and tell the Priest who lived nearby. After a while he came to the house and dispersed the people into the sandpit, which was outside the house.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Killalea
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigeenroe, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- James Conlon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Cuiltyconeen, Co. Roscommon