School: Cluain Leamhac (Cloonloo) (roll number 12767)
- Location:
- Cloonloogh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Lochlainn

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- (continued from previous page)Table. From that and when he would come to the
town it would shake. Once when he came they
were eating their breakfast and he ordered something
to eat and they gave it to him. There he went to
Limerick and the same thing happened. No one
knows how he ended up. - Once upon a time there was a man who lived
in the townland of derryknockrane. One day he
was reaping a field of oats when a very strong
breeze came along and was scattering his oats
about. the man got very vexed and he flung the
hook out of his had against the breeze that was
blowing saying, "Our side for it". Some time after
he was going to a fair in Tubbercurry and we went
into a house on the side of the road to rest himself.the man of the house gave him great welcome
and called him in his name. the man (of the
house) wondered greatly when he saw that the man
of the house knew him and said "How is it that
you know me and I don't know you" The man
asked him did he remember the day when he
flung the hook at the breeze. He said he did well.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Patrick Wynne
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- Male