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School: Ballyduff B. N. School

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Ballyduff, Co. Kerry
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Tadhg Ó Leathlobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0415, Page 185

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    One night two men went out torching. They came to the ditch of a fort in Timothy Fitzmaurice's land. They saw a blackbird up in the hedge. They tried to strike it with their sticks but they couldn't. After a while Ned Carthy went away, and the teller of this story stayed there, trying to kill the bird. He thought that Ned was with him all the time. In the morning he found out his mistake. There was no blackbird on the hedge, but a note and those words on it. Never go torching again or you'll have the worst of it.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ignatius O' Brien
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Denis Joesph Nelan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 38
    Address
    Knoppoge, Co. Kerry