School: Glenderry (roll number 10403)
- Location:
- Glenderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Gleathbhúir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0417C, Page 09_053
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- Long ago there was a landlord in this country.
One day as he went out to his garden he looked at his plants and they were not growing so well because he had no good earth to make tham grow. He thought one day where would he get earth; so he said a graveyard could be a good place for getting earth.
He went to the graveyard to get the earth to put his trees growing. So he got the earth and carried it home to his garden.
Then he put the earth(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Higgins
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Kirby
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Glenderry, Co. Kerry
