School: Corr-Shaileach (roll number 12208)
- Location:
- Corsallagh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0172, Page 072
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- Long, long ago, there lived a very rich man who had one little son named Peter.
Now instead of being glad and thankful that he was so rich that greedy man was always cross and unhappy because he was not the richest man in the whole world.
Well he thought and wondered how he could become richer than anyone else, and one day he said "Naw I know what to do. I will send my gold and silver and all my lovely things in a big ship all round the world and buy more treasures and soon I shall be the richest man in the whole world, but when he came with one ship he started to put all he owned on it, he found that no fewer than four ships would be needed to hold all his wealth. So he brought four splendid and send them off(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggie Allen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carraun, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Pat O' Dowd
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Chaffpool, Co. Sligo
