Scoil: Barradubh (Sixmilebridge)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. (gan teideal) (ar lean)

   “There was a great poacher who lived in Bun a' Chumar.”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   During the Summer the water used be very shallow at the lower end of the pool, and cattle used to cross it from Bun a'Chumar to Knockchanes and vice versa.
   To prevent them from trespassing thorny (barbed) wire was drawn zigzag across the river. Maurice never thought of that and actually swam under the wire which caught his coat in the back. He struggled free leaving the lower half of his coat stuck on the wire. The police saw him in difficulties and rushed to the spot. They secured the piece of torn coat but Maurice had reached the Knockanes side and fled in the darkness. He recrossed the river and reached his own house assisted by the light of the "toarch" which the constable still held. The mountain is behind his house and geese were kept in a little house under a rock. He travelled a distance up a mountain path whence he hid his clothes and returned naked to his house. When passing the house where the geese were he saw that the light of the "toarch" had gone out so he

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Dómhnall Ua Donnchadha

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Gairm bheatha

   Múinteoir (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)