School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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- (continued from previous page)stones on the side of the road. He sat down to rest as he was tired. He asked the man where Biddy Earlys house was. The man said "I can not tell you that because the priest cursed her on the alter. I know you came a long distance and it is too bad to let you home without telling you. I have no tobacco and if you give me a pipe full of tobacco I will tell you all." He gave the man the tobacco and the man showed him the house.
When he went in to the house he saw an old woman and and old man there. He told his business to the old woman and she went into a room where she kept a majic bottle. She could read everything by looking at the bottle. She asked him why did his sister Mary not(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kitty Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Thomas Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Cartron, Co. Galway