School: Inistioge (B.) (roll number 1916)
- Location:
- Inis Tíog, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Máirtín Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0859, Page 111
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- (continued from previous page)drank it. The man came out later. He drove down a bit of the road and the horse began to wobble under the car, and finally fell down. The man took the car off the horse. He thought that the horse was dead. He started to skin the horse, he said that if the horse was dead he would get something for the skin. He had a good part of the horse skinned when he realised that the horse was alive. He went over to a sally bush on the ditch. He broke a feew twigs off the bush and started to stitch the horse's skin with the twigs. He then brought him home and let him out in the field at the back of the house for a week. He went down to look at him after a few days, and there were salies growing on the horse from eight to ten feet high. All the boiys from the three parts of the parish came to cut fishing rods off the horse and that is how that horse lived.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Cotterell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Inis Tíog, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Mrs Cotterell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Cill Choileáin, Co. Chill Chainnigh
