School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)

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   his sweet heart before he would die and the young man told him that he could not give him his wish that he had no sweet heart. Then the father said to him to try and get one and the young man went away out down to the woman's house that had the wooden plate. he used to go down there every night. This night as he was going in he heard a girl's voice singing a lovely song. Then when he went in the old man and woman were sitting at the fire and the young man said to them "ye have a visitor to-night" and they said no that they had no one in the house but themselves and the young man said that when. he was coming in he heard a lovely song. So his father asked him next day did he get any sweet heart and he said not. Then that night the young man was going into the house he heard the singing again twice nicer than than the first night and he asked the old woman who was singing and she said she heard no one

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick O' Dowd

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ceathrú an Mhóta, Co. Thiobraid Árann

   Informant

   Mrs O' Donnell

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   76

   Address

   Ceathrú an Mhóta, Co. Thiobraid Árann