School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 198
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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.”
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“There was a man there once and there was a fort near his house.”
There was a man there once and there was a fort near his house. He was every night dreaming that there was gold in the forth. He had not the courage to go digging for it. He went to town one night and got half drunk and he bought a spade and he said he would dig the forth to night. He went to the forth that night and started digging. He had a good size of a hole made. He drove down the spade this time(continues on next page) - Collector
- Peg Barry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derry, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- William Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derry, Co. Kerry