School: Béal an Átha Móir (B.)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Heslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0225, Page 138
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“There were two men working with a gentleman, a father and his son.”
(continued from previous page)coat and took eight pounds out of it and then went on with his work.
When the gentleman saw all this money gone he told Jack's father to send him away to learn the trade to be a thief.That night Jack went away to learn the trade to be a thief. He had gone about half-way when he met three men, and each man had a bag. The men asked Jack where he was going to. ''I'm going to learn to be a thief,'' said Jack. ''You have met with the all right men we are going to rob a castle,'' said the men. Jack went with the men, and before long they came to a castle. The people who were living in this castle(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Francis Michael Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloverhill or Corglass, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Laurence Fee
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Curraghnawall, Co. Leitrim