School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 197
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“There was once a man by the name of Jack and he had a horse and he gave him a shilling in a feed of oats in the morning.”
There was once a man by the name of Jack and he had a horse and he gave him a shilling in a feed of oats in the morning. During the day he met the landlord (was) and the landlord was buying the horse and when he saw that he passed the shilling he offered him any money Jack asked him for one hundred pounds and his land free. So he gave the landlord the horse and land. He had his land free forever but the horse passed no more money.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gerald Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromin, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Joe Shanahan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromin, Co. Kerry