School: Clashaganny (roll number 8051)
- Location:
- Clais an Ghainimh, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Albert Flanagan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0252, Page 213
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- (continued from previous page)with a small bird in his mouth. He continued this four times in succession each time bringing a fowl The fifth time he went to the burrows and chased out a rabbit which he overpowered and killed The trouble began trying to carry it and the rabbit so heavy. He pulled it a few feet and rested. Next he tried to get it on to the wall this was done by raising it on a stone then climbing to the top of the fence and reaching down and daragging it up we could not know how he had such a big appetite but this was solved by a wise man in the neighbour hood named Sonny Scally he said there was a whole family of weasels in a clump The four small fowl were for the young babes and the rabbit for the mother.
- Collector
- Philomena Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sheegeeragh, Co. Ros Comáin
- Informant
- John Gibbons
- Gender
- Male
