School: Sraithín (roll number 13617)
- Location:
- An tSraith Chaoin, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
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- Once up on a a time, and that was the time if we were init that time we wouldn't be in it now, when pigs were swine, and swallows built their nests in old men's beards. There lived about Drumahare and Manorhamilton in the Country Letrim a poor widow, and her only son Mickey. Mickey grew to be a man of powerful physique, his principle article of a pearl was a large goat's shin, which his mother managed to procure for him someway or the other. Once morning they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Liam Ó Gabháin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tóin le Gaoith, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- Aibistín Ó Gabháin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Tóin le Gaoith, Co. Mhaigh Eo