Scoil: Naomh Seosamh, Baile an Ruadháin (uimhir rolla 15829)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. (gan teideal)

   “My cousin and I, a boy two years elder than myself about fifty years ago paid a visit to my grandfather's house.”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   My cousin and I, a boy two years elder than myself about fifty years ago paid a visit to my grandfather's house. He lived in Monivea in a small thatched house with loft overhead, while there we were sent on a message to a tailor who lived in the district. It was a cold, nippy evening during Xmas week.
   Night fell suddenly and we were undecided whether to take the cross cut or the road, we choose the former, however. When we left the road we turned in a boreen with a high wall on one side. Suddenly we thought we saw a strange figure come through the wall and almost jumped on my feet. We both ran like the wind for our lives never speaking a word until we arrived at my grandfather's house.
   They were in bed and some potatoes "roasters" laid beside the fire for our supper. We could neither eat or speak but stole up in the loft to bed leaving the lamp lighting on the kitchen floor, so that no fairy could catch us going up the old stairs. We said our prayers

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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   Topaicí

   1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. neacha neamhshaolta agus osnádúrtha (~14,864)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Lizzie Kathleen Nally

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Tóin le Gaoith Íochtair, Co. na Gaillimhe

   Faisnéiseoir

   Thomas Nally

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   65

   Gairm bheatha

   Farmer (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   An Driseachán, Co. na Gaillimhe