School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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“There was once a shop-keeper in Tuam who used always give wrong weights and weights.”
One day as he was given bread to a poor person he was struck with paralysis and he died soon after. About a month after, as that poor person was near the sea- shore a man came over the water and said "weights and measures" is the cause of my pain. Oh Lord deliver me from the watery main.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peggy Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Mannin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Mweeloon, Co. Galway