School: Effernan, Cill an Dísirt
- Location:
- Effernan, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seán de Nógla
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“There once was a husband and wife, they lived happily together and they had alot of money.”
(continued from previous page)not tell him and he kept asking. So after a while she told him and he branded the pound notes for her. Then she reported it to the guards and the guards went to the house at the hour the man had appointed to call. The man came dressed in a habit and the guard took hold of him into prison and he got no money.
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“There once was a husband and wife and they had two children, one of which was very young and the other was walking.”
There was once a husband and wife and they had two children, one of which was very young and the other was walking. At that time the people were using goats heads to to make soup and they all loved it. One day the husband was gone working and they were to go for a goats head. The wife hung the oven on the fire before she left. She put the young child to bed and the old one was going around the house. Then she went and got the goats head and when she returned she found the young child dead and his head in the oven boiling and she got a great fright. It was the old child who cut off the young ones head. Then when the husband came home she told him and he took the old(continues on next page) - Collector
- Aggie Mac Namara
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moyfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mr T. Moloney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolmeen, Co. Clare