School: Corra-bheagáin (roll number 12206)
- Location:
- Corraveggaun West, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Congamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0150, Page 230
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“There was once a man and his wife living together.”
There was once a man and his wife living together.They had one son, and when he was seven years old his father died. Before his death he told his son that there was a tree growing in one of his fields and when he would be twenty one years old he would pull it up from the roots. The boy kept working away, and one day he went out to the field, he put his arms round the tree and shook it, and he said when he would be twenty one years he would do as his father said. When he was twenty one years he went out and pulled the tree and about an acre of land along with it. He went into the house and got a sword under the bed and it was printed on it that the man who carried(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gortaskibbole, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortaskibbole, Co. Mayo