School: Lanesboro (roll number 13320)
- Location:
- Lanesborough, Co. Longford
- Teacher: E. Ó Reachtagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0753, Page 161
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- (continued from previous page)sea. The Children's sufferings were immense as they were transformed into swans. One of them died and ever since people never kill swans or shoot or annoy them in any way. When the four hundred years were up the two remaining again received their human forms though they were very old. Some people say they received the light of faith before they died, so let hope they did
- Once upon a time there was a lone bush between Clonfower and Kilashee. It was called Lukes bush, because there was a house beside it man called Luke. So it got its name from that Once there was a terrible wet year and no people got to cut turf. So they all had to cut down trees and burned them to have a fire. This man named Luke cut the lone tree and he left it outside his house. For two days he cut a little bit of the tree and burned it. This night he went out to get a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joan Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lanesborough, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mr James Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Barnacor, Co. Longford
