School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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111 A story.
One day Paddy Tully was going home from his sister's house(Fanny).When he was going at the bottom of the big isle he met a small man who asked him had he any education ,and Paddy said "I have not"
Then the small man said "Youre better off because you will have nothing to account for on the last day."Paddy has no education either.Then the small man vanished and nobody ever saw him from that day to this.
- Collector
- Bridget Keely
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Slieveanore, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John Broderick
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Slieveanore, Co. Clare
