School: Scoil na mBráthar, Caiseal (roll number 16726)
- Location:
- Cashel, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. B. E. Ó hOireabháird
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0555, Page 255
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- One night in Tipperary two men arranged to rob an orchard. They decided that one was to go into the orchard and throw the apples over the wall to the other who would fill them into a bag outside. It was also decided that the man who went into the orchard was to get two apples to every one the other man got.
They succeeded in getting the apples and stole off to a lonely spot in a nearby graveyard. They were proceeding to divide the apples. As they were dividing the apples one man kept on saying "I take two you take one". It was now late at night and a man passing by on the road heard the talk and said to himself "That must be the devil and St. Michael dividing the souls". The poor man was terrified and ran home and told his wife "The Lord between us and all harm" said she "you should not be out so late at(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dermot Ó Hegarty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Charterschool Land, Co. Tipperary
