School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0463, Page 004
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- (continued from previous page)feather what he was going to do to them. But he said we save ourselves from him and he asked her why was this room locked all the time and to let him in to see it. After a while she left him in and he saw the coffins inside and asked her what were they for. She said they were for you and your brothers, and she crying. But he told her not to be crying. She said to him to go away to the forest and to climb the highest tree there, and if the child would be a boy she would put up a white flag in the castle and if it would be a girl a red flag. One day they saw a red flag and they had to go away. They met a small little house and no one living in it. They said they would stay(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Harrington
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardea, Co. Kerry
