School: Ráth na Loch (B.), Fearann Fuar (roll number 16999)
- Location:
- Ranalough, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 025
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- (continued from previous page)to the coffin.
They opened it and turned the dead man upside down and pulled the poisonous nails out of him and sucked the poison out of him. He was alive again and went home with the old man.
The old man said he would burn his daughter. The husband did not want it, but the old man burned her all the same. The man went away, with his dogs' and he was not gone far when he met a big pond, and the dogs spoke to him and said:-
Throw us in here now," He refused to do so. They said if you don't throw us in we will throw you in. He did so, and he went away very lonely. At a bend of the road, he met two boys and a girl and they asked him, what was the matter with him, and he said he lost his three best friends.
They said we are the three dogs now; we were changed into dogs(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pat Foley
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Ned Kerrisk
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Killeentierna, Co. Kerry
