School: Druim Mór (roll number 16278)
- Location:
- An Droim Mór, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Catháin
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- (continued from previous page)beautiful garden of rods which were long and thin and most suitable for basket making. So he cut down some of them and made a beautiful basket. They were living near a seaport town. He told the girl to bring the basket to town and sell it for no less than seven shillings. She went to town and as she went into a shop, she met there a beautiful girl, who asked her who made the basket. She said it was a young man who was once going to America with his wife and who had been thrown overboard by the Captain in order that he might have his wife for his bride. The girl believed there was no one able to make a basket like this but her husband. She accompanied the young girl to her home. There she found(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sara Browne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Portach Bradach, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Pat Culkin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- An Portach Bradach, Co. Shligigh
