School: Gaddyduff (roll number 16642)
- Location:
- An Ghadaigh Dhubh, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: P. H. Kavanagh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1121, Page 139
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- Once upon a time there lived a widow and her three sons Sean Seamus and Downaill. They lived in a wee kitchen on a small piece of land. They had three cows, two young ones and one old rickety thing. Seamus and Sean were two clever greedy lads and Downaill was a kind-hearted innocent lad.These two clever lads got married and went to live in their wives' homes. Each of them took a good cow with them and left the old rickety thing with Downaill and his mother. So the old cow died with vexation at being left alone. It happened to be a fair day in the nearest town so Downaill skinned the cow and brought the hide to the town. He tied a half crown in each corner of the hide, he went up and down the crowded streets drumming on the hide asking who would buy a hide full of half crowns. Every time he would drum on the hide there would(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brian Devlin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Allt an Chalaidh, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Mary Anne Devlin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Allt an Chalaidh, Co. Dhún na nGall
