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 111
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“A man and an old woman had two sons. One of the sons was married away from the house.”
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It was a cold night, and he was sitting on a tombstone and the pairs of blankets round him. The minister, who lived near the graveyard, had his horse in it.So it came to near bed time, and the minister told his servant boy to go out for the horse that there was so much frost he feared the horse would be foundered before morning. The boy went out for the horse and he had to pass where the boy was sitting on the tombstone where the woman was (sitting) buried that day. When he saw the white thing on the tombstone(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Daisy Muldownes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Grobhainn Thoir, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Patrick Cannon
- Gender
- Male