School: Listowel (B.) (roll number 1797)
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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- (continued from previous page)poorer than the Scanlon man. Every night the neighbours came to the Keane man's house. The Keane man had no glass in his windows but card-boards. There was a green pailing and flowers in front of the Scanlon man's house. One night about one O'clock the Keane man went out and took the glass of the Scanlon man's windows. Then he took the flowers and put them in front of his own house. Then he took the pailing and put it in front of his own house also.
- Three brothers who knew only Irish set out from their home to learn English. When they came to a cross-roads each took a different road. The first brother saw a man ploughing with three horses. The ploughman said "We three". The second brother saw a woman beating her children. The children were saying "We want money". The third brother heard people saying "We don't care". The three brothers met again at(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Cahill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Curraghatoosane, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mick Barrett
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Derra East, Co. Kerry
