School: Dromclough (C.),
- Location:
- Kilcarra Beg, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0409, Page 190
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- (continued from previous page)A robin red breast asked him for a bit, but he said "if you don't get away I'll let the light through you."
After his dinner he met a hare and his dog followed it and he went after it too. The dog held after the hare until nightfall, and he came to a wood where he saw a light in a small thatched cabin.
There was no one in thatched cabin but an old woman, and there was a lamp lighting. He put up his horse. She pulled a rib of snare out of the horses mane and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Flaherty
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Denis Flaherty
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Mountcoal, Co. Kerry
