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 93
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“Bhí fear i mBaile Easa Caoile a raibh tarbh aige.”
Bhí fear i mBaile Easa Caoile a raibh tarbh aige. Deireadh sé, aon duine nach niocfadh é as an tarbh go ndéanfadh sé aithrid a mharbhochahd an gamhan sa mbuin. - One time a man named O'Dowd was out near the sea and caught a seal. He took off the thing for swimming and the seal was a woman. The two got married and they had three in family. One fair day when the father was gone the mother asked the children did they see any thing at their father. One of them seen him putting it in a stack of oats. She went out and tumbled the stack and got the thing for swimming. She went away and the children followed her and she changed them into three stones on the shore. She said that when them stones would disappear Ireland would be free. She said too the O'Dowds never to have luck until the seal would come in at Cnoc na Cach. When she went out she got sorry and she sent in the seal and he was just(continues on next page)