School: Corr Odhar (roll number 14701)
- Location:
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Aibhistín Ó Coinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0126, Page 370
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- (continued from previous page)consider what way I could get up there.I pulled some hairs from the cow’s tails and made a ladder, but when I had the ladder made the difficulty was how was I to near it. Just then, to my good fortune there came a stiff north breeze and when I lifted one end of the ladder the wind got under it and carried that end up and up until it rested right against the sun.“I believe” said the King.“Well then”, said the cow-boy, I started to climb up the ladder, and after about an hour’s climbing I thought I must be a long way from the earth and so, to my misfortune I looked back and my nerves failed me and I fell to the earth like a stone. Unfortunately, where should I fall but on a huge rock and I sank to my shoulders in the solid rock”.“I believe” said the King.“Well, said the cow-boy “there I was, a prisoner, and try what I would I could not get out of the rock. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Austin F. Cunney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- William Loftus
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Graffy, Co. Mayo
