School: Robertstown, Naas (roll number 15655)
- Location:
- Robertstown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: P. Ó Harachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 219
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“It is said that there was a man crossing the a rath in Mr Wards field...”
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“A man was going to the fair with pigs and he went into a shop and when he came back to the cart the pigs were gone.”
A man was going to the fair with pigs and he went into a shop and when he came back to the cart the pigs were gone. There was a fairy and the man asked him where were the pigs. The fairy said they are sold and the man went home and his wife asked him where was the money and the man said "I have no money a fairy took the pigs. - As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, Can climb the church over steeple and all.
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