School: Beann-chorr (roll number 13808)

Location:
Banagher, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Hairt
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 269

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 269

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Beann-chorr
  2. XML Page 269
  3. XML “Dividing the Spoil”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Dividing the Spoil.
    Two boys from Forge Village went to Summer Hill gathering nuts. They brought a bag with them and they filled it.
    When evening came to go home they had to divide the nuts and they went into Rathfran graveyard to divide them.
    Going into them they picked the two biggest nuts in the bag and left one at each pillar.
    They went in dividing the nuts and how they counted them was, "This is mine", "This is yours".
    When the nuts were counted one of the boys said. "What about the two big ones at the gate? and two men were listening at the pillar's
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Location
    Banagher, Co. Mayo
    Collector
    Mary Mc Hale
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrowtrasna, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    John Franklin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Carrowtrasna, Co. Mayo