School: An Clochar (roll number 14705)
- Location:
- Cill Bharrainn, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Mother Philomena
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 177
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“There was once an old woman who was a cripple.”
(continued from previous page)they were much surprised to see the creel full of bottles of porter and whiskey.
The men were delighted and sat down and drank till they had all finished. Then they went home much pleased.
When the wedding party came out of the public house they took the creel which was outside and went home. When they reached home they put the creel on the table. Then the man of the house asked for a drink. They opened and the creel and found inside it the corpse of the cripple.
They were greatly astonished and never let on to anybody but buried the corpse in the nearest graveyard.
- Collector
- Kathleen Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Droim an Iolair, Co. Fhear Manach