School: Beann-chorr (roll number 13808)
- Location:
- Banagher, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Hairt
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- 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)- Collector
- Mary Mc Hale
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowtrasna, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Franklin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Carrowtrasna, Co. Mayo