School: Beann-chorr (roll number 13808)
- Location:
- Banagher, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Hairt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 262
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- (continued from previous page)I never seen a mare's egg before in my life, he said. "Would you sell it?
I would, "he said," and the price of it is twenty one guineas.
He paid him the twenty one guineas, for it.
"Be careful now and hatch it and a foal will come out of it.
As he was coming home with the egg he met his six brother meeting him. They said what have you. I have a mare's egg with me said he. Show it to me says they and in the excitement it fell from them and it rolled down the hill from them. When it came against the wall it bursted and a hare pumped up and they said that it was the foal.
They wanted to catch the(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas Loughney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Castlenageeha, Co. Mayo
