School: Currans (C.) (roll number 4460)
- Location:
- Currans, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Bhraoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0445, Page 105
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- (continued from previous page)also min and boys take a rag doll about which was called ''the biddy''. They asked money in the name of Brigid.
- Once upon a time the saints of Kerry sent a man to find a place to build a monastery. He could not ask anyone the name of the place. He began to build fences in a field then someone would come along and he would find out the name of the place without asking. One evening as he was going towards Killarney he heard a man ask another man if he saw his cow"Tá sí thuas" ar seisean "ar Sgithín ó Daoda ar Goirtín Acrú". That was the name of the place(continues on next page)
