School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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- (continued from previous page)-d Pat Duggan was out boating in the same lake when the boat was driven back like a flash to the shore and could not put out the boat again.
A Story
“Many years ago a good strong woman in Connacht went to the bog to foot turf.”
A Story.
Many years ago a good strong woman in Connacht went to the bog to foot turf. For everyone she used make there used be ten made around her. She did not know who was doing it.So she futted two great banks of turf in one half-hour. She went home not feeling good. She went to bed when she went home. Each day her husband was getting very worried about her. One day as her daughter and husband went up to the bedside to see her. The man said he would bring in the pitch fork and kill her in the bed if she did not disappear and go away. He said to her that she(continues on next page)- Collector
- Michael Ó hAinnín
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Reanahumana, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs Fanny Tully
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Slieveanore, Co. Clare