School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)

Location:
Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Liam Ó Catháin
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    did as he was told and when he went for his spade the smith threw him out a spade. He was looking at it and the smith said to him "you are like a man that would not like it. Yes, said Shanahan throw me out another, and the smith did, and he too found a fault with the second one, and he said give me another, and although it being the same as the other he took it. "Ah" said the smith you had your lesson before you came but Shanahan said nothing, he took it home and the sick boy got up and worked in the fields like the other men and he was never sick.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peg Barry
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derry, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    John Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Derry, Co. Kerry