Scoil: Ballyduff B. N. School

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1. A Local Story Told by Elderly People While Sitting Around the Fire on Winter Nights

   

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   Long ago there was a man by the name of Pierce living near Causeway, and he had a servant man whom he sent with a letter to a friend in Killorglin. There were no postmen at that time, and people had to send someone with letters, and they had to travel all the way on foot. When this man was on his way, night came on him, and he saw a house which he had never seen before in that journey. He went in, and the house was full of people, and after a while a girl came to him and told him to take no notice of what he would see or hear and not to take anything to eat or drink but what she would bring him. There was an old man in the corner with a long whiskers and he was all the time grumbling. The boy asked the girl what was wrong with the old man and the answer the girl made was

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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   John Houlihan

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Faisnéiseoir

   Tom Kerins

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Ráth Fhiaile, Co. Chiarraí