Scoil: Tiobraid Árann (B.) (uimhir rolla 1285)

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1. (gan teideal)

   “A strange ailment came to a young man who owned a small farm in Garryduff.”

   

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   A strange ailment came to a young man who owned a small farm in Garryduff. The farm was passed on from father to son for countless generations. In this farm there was a field which was cursed. No cows grazed on this field and it had not been cultivated for nearly fifty years. One day the young man who owned the farm was walking through the cursed field and he saw that the field was becoming overgrown with weeds. He went back to the house and got a scythe. When he returned to the field he began to cut the thistles. While he was cutting the thistles a thorn entered his leg. He did not notice it until he returned home. As he took out the thorn he felt a twinging pain. When he awoke next morning he found to his dismay that he could not stand on the afflicted foot. Then he saw that his leg had shrivelled to half its former size. When the doctor, having been summoned, informed the man that through some mysterious cause his leg had been poisoned, the man did not give up hope. Having tried several cures which did not avail him, at last he gave up hope. My grandfather was digging in the field where the strange happening

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

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   John Mac Carthy

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mrs M. Mac Carthy

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

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