Scoil: Ceapach Chuinn (B.) (uimhir rolla 1936)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. In Ballysaggart there lived three landlords . . . (ar lean)

   

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   get water was the well, which was in a field behind her house, but Ussher allowed no one near the land. The neighbours always brought her a churn of water from the Blackwater, but his day she had no one to get it for her. As the Blackwater (which was two miles away) was too far for her to walk, she thought there would be no harm in going to the well for once.
   When she was bending down to fill her gallon in the well she heard a shout behind her; "Get away from that well and get off my land you cursed wretch. How dare a dying old hag like you interfere with my water or dirty my land with those rotten feet of yours". It was the eldest Ussher and he made her throw back the water and he threatened to beat her if she did not get off his land immediately. She obeyed and when she was out of his sight she knelt down and cursed him saying "O God, may the brothers of this man, Ussher, who hunted me away without a drop of water, be at his funeral before the year is out, and may he grow silly and his tongue hang out of his head so that he cannot offend

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   Stair Athraigh

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   Thomas Conway

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   Tom O' Donnell

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