School: Sallybank
- Location:
- Drumsillagh or Sallybank (Merritt), Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0585, Page 210
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- Once upon a time there lived a man near Doon Lake who was employed by Major Going. As he was going home from work one evening he met a gipsy. They gave him a mare, that fell tired on them, - to leave it in the field near the lake until they would call for her.
He thought they would call for her from day to day until two years passed away. One morning he saw some other animal with the mare. To his surprise it was a young foal. His skin was spotted with spots about the size of a penny on his skin. Time passed away and the gipseys took the mare and left him the foal. The foal was a year old and he started to ride the foal, to work. And then he went drawing turf with him. The foal spoke to the man and said "your master is running a horse in England and he will not win but tell him put silver shoes on me and I will win the race. The man only laughed at the idea. The master'shorse(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Fennessy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloghera, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mr John Joe Nihill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloghera, Co. Clare
