School: Cathair Loisgreáin (B)
- Location:
- Cathair Loistreáin, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Pádhraic de Chlár
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0022, Page 0229
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- (continued from previous page)Then he went out and stole a bag of potatoes. He went out and stole a sheep.. He skinned the sheep and put some of it down in the pot. The children were so hungry that they were snapping the meat out of the pot before it was half cooked. When they had that sheep eatin they went out again and brought back in another sheep. He got it in his brothers land. The brother saw his sheep was missing and he made up a plan that he would put his grandmother down in a box barrel and put bread and butter into it an she would tell him all the things they would be saying in the other house. The men opened the box when it was a day in the house and he saw the old grandmother in the box sucking a bone. He shoved the bone down her throat and choked her.
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- Collector
- P. de Clair
- Gender
- Male
