School: Baile Droichid, Cathair Dún Iascaigh (roll number 10533)
- Location:
- Ballydrehid, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Donnchadh Mac Craith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0576, Page 007
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- (continued from previous page)and ate his supper and went to bed.
He was not long there when he heard the two in the kitchen plotting to kill him. He got up and went out in the yard and brought in a young calf and tied him in the bed.
When the worker came up to kill him, he struck the calf, and as the calf moaned, he thought it was Bill.
When he had gone Bill went to bed and when morning came he put a sheet around him and went to the door and when they saw him they fled.
- One day as my great grand-father was rising sand in the hollow of a three cornered field on my father's land he struck the shovel against a crock.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Keating
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs J. Keating
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 36
- Address
- Ballydrehid, Co. Tipperary
