School: Eanach Mór (roll number 13912)
- Location:
- Annagh More, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mártain Ó Braonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0142, Page 130
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- XML “Cow and Whale”
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- (continued from previous page)not throw out something for him to eat that he would turn the ship. They threw out some apples and he ate them, and they threw out a chair and he ate it. As they were coming near the land they were afraid he would turn the ship, and they threw out an old woman. When they reached land they captured the shark and opened him, and what did they find but the old woman sitting on the chair eating apples.
- One day a man was going to a fair with a cow. They passed by a house + the people were skinning a whale. When the man had passed the house the cow calved. Half of the calf was a a whale + the remainder a calf like any calf.
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- Collector
- Mártain Ó Braonáin
- Gender
- Male
