School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 193
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“Long ago there was a wood ranger and he had a daughter.”
(continued from previous page)baskets. So one of them said. We will make a basket". The oldest one went down first and he said "According as I will be going down let you be adding on a rod and when I will be afraid I will shake the basket". He went down far but he got afraid and he shook the basket. They pulled it up and the second oldest went down and he went down farther than the first but he got afraid and he shook the basket and they brought him up the youngest brother went down to the bottom and he never shook the basket. He went out below. He thought he heard some one washing clothes. So he went in to the house and he saw a woman washing three spots of of blood off of the wood(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Betty Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derry, Co. Kerry