School: Páirc Íseal (C.) (roll number 4794)
- Location:
- Lowpark, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Sorcha Ní Dhumhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0117, Page 138
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- (continued from previous page)"It was you that was pelting the stones all the time and I killed my other son for you, so he killed his other son and all.
So when he had his other son killed he looked up to the tree and he saw the boy above and he told the boy to come down and the boy said he wouldn't that he'd kill him if he came down, and he said he'd do nothing to him. And then they had a great feast, and the king said whichever on of them would ate a cow that he'd be be the best. And the boy put a goats skin on him, and when they was ating the boy put the mate inside the goats skin instead of down his belly. And when they had done ating they said that whichever of them 'id cut their belly(continues on next page)
