School: Currans (C.) (roll number 4460)
- Location:
- Na Coirríní, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Bhraoin
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“In the bad times a family lived in Gortatlea who were very poor...”
(continued from previous page)in without any door. The weather was very cold. One day the old man thought of a plan to go to a churchyard for a board of a coffin to make a door. The rich people used then be buried in coffins while the poor people were buried in sheets. The door lasted for a long time until he got a piece of timber, to make another door. Then he took off the piece of coffin and put it aside with a promise to put it back as soon as possible.One night a few neighbours were inside and he had a very bad fire so he went and broke off a piece off the coffin and put it into the fire. The hens were in a coob in the kitchen, and when it started to light the cock hopped out of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eily Griffin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Moriarty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Gort an tSléibhe, Co. Chiarraí