School: Gaddyduff (B.) (roll number 16642)
- Location:
- Gaddyduff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: P. H. Kavanagh
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- (continued from previous page)to throw his son out when he saw a strange looking ship coming in. He left down his son and waited until the ship came in under the ben. The captain of the ship came up the ben and he started to question the king. He asked him what was in the bag and he said his son. He told him what he was going to do with him. The captain said, "If you give me your son for seven years he will be a good worker." The king gave him his son and away went his son an the ship. At the end of seven years he went back to the top off the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Laurence Farren
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Hugh Gibbons
- Gender
- Male
