School: Dromlogach Mainistir na Féile (roll number 10908)

Location:
Dromlegagh, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Eighneachán Ó Muircheartaigh
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    There was a man there long ago.

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    told him that he would give him the land. Then he wrote to the two other sons and told them come home. Then he gave the land to the youngest son and he gave the money to the second son and to the third son he gave a cat a dog a ram a gander a bull and a cock and he told him to make his living out of them. He went away and he met a castle he went into the castle. There was a heap of splinters in the corner. He put the cat in the corner and he told him if any robber came to get a splinter to scrape him he put the dog lying near the fire and told him if anyone came to blow the fire to stick his paw down his throat. He put the ram in the middle of the floor and told him if anyone came down the floor to hit him with his head. He put the gander behind the door and he told him if anyone comes out the door to beat him with his wings. He put the bull outside and he told him to hit anyone that would come to the door with his horns and throw him up on the castle. He put the cock up on the castle and told him to pick out his eyes with his bill. One day a robber came to the castle and he was nearly killed. He ran away to the forest and told the rest of the robbers that the castle was enchanted. He said when he went up to the corner for a splinter there was an old woman sitting in the corner and she tore him with her nails, when he went over to blow the fire there was an old man there and he stuck a dirty ashey hand down his throat. When he was going down the
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