School: Kilmore (roll number 13010)
- Location:
- Kilmore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eilís, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0204, Page 294
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- One time a man dreamed for three nights that he would get gold from an eel. On the fourth morning he went to the byre and he brought a neighbour with him. He saw the eel with the gold in his mouth jumping out the window. It is supposed he would have got the gold if he had not brought the neighbour with him.
- Collector
- Tessie Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killadiskert, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Tessie Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killadiskert, Co. Leitrim
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“Once upon a time there was a man and his wife living together in their home and along with them...”
once upon a time there was a man and his wife living together in their home and along with them lived a crippled boy. He was a cripple in the corner. One day the man of the house was going to get a loy layed by a blacksmith. The cripple in the corner said "If the blacksmith throws down the loy and looks after it, it won't be done right". The man said he would watch. When the blacksmith had it layed he looked after it and the man said the loy was not layed right "How do you know" said the blacksmith "I have a cripple boy and he told me" "Well" said the blacksmith(continues on next page)
