School: Breac-Cluain (B.) (roll number 16217)
- Location:
- Brackloon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Séaghdha
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- (continued from previous page)But if he's alive he's in Camp or in Brandon,
Or away in the mountains in some place remote,
But whilst I am living I have a story for telling,
About my rambles through Kerry and the Dingle Puck Goat.
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“Long ago two men from the west of Dingle went to America.”
Long ago two men from the west of Dingle went to America. When they came to Queenstown they stopped in a house. It was a woman that was living there.
The woman told them to carry two blackthorn sticks what fear of the bugs. She told them that she had a monkey trained to polish the shoes. When they were in bed (the monkey) about four hours the monkey came into the room. for the shoes. When they heard the monkey coming in they thought he was the bugs.
hanam ó'n diabhal a Seain feúc an bug.
And they killed the monkey - Informant
- John Curtin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Anascaul, Co. Kerry
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“There was a man in Camp and his horse was going to have a foal.”
There was a man in Camp and his horse was going to have a foal. He put the horse into the kitchen and he tied her well. The fairies came that night to take away the horse. And they were more fairies trying to stop them. The fairies made three attempts to get the horse and the horse broke the rope the three times. The man of the house got up and he(continues on next page)