School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 368
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“Long ago there used be four boys playing cards in a house.”
(continued from previous page)the fire and gave her a spoon of milk. She came to life and they put her sitting before the fire and she began to speak to them and she said to them "To morrow I will be buried and which ever one of you will have the best courage and not let me be buried I will be alive. You must get a new horse at every town, and when you meet the funeral you will be told who is dead". The oldest brother said he would go and he got the fresh horse in every town until he met the funeral. The priests were a short distance before the funeral and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peg Barry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derry, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Barry
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Derry, Co. Kerry