School: St Fiachra's Kilkenny (roll number 11750)
- Location:
- Cill Chainnigh, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gealagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0855, Page 109
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“A man and an old woman had two sons. One of the sons was married away from the house.”
(continued from previous page)and I asked her to leave me a blanket and she would not. "Well," says the other man to him, "when you'er after lifting your mother to night take the second blanket for me.
So the two men parted in the graveyard. The agreed to meet again in the grave-yard. So then the fellow went in and he started and dug the grave and took the blankets off the old woman, and he closed up the grave again.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Daisy Muldownes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Grobhainn Thoir, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Patrick Cannon
- Gender
- Male