School: Na Cnocáin (roll number 13150)
- Location:
- Knockanes, Co. Kerry
- Teachers: Bean Uí Spealáin Máiréad Ní Laoghaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0456, Page 390
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- Jack the FoolThere was a woman living in Glenflesk long ago she had one son and his name was Jack. One day she sent him to the fair with a cow and told him get the highest penny in the fair. Jack went away and when he reached the fair he asked for the highest penny and a man went up on a very high tree and threw down a penny to Jack and said that is the highest penny in the fair.
Jack took the penny and he returned for home. On his way home he saw a Golláin. It was raining and he took off his overcoat and put it around the Gollain. He went on and he met a man and the man asked him where was his coat, and he said I met my Grandfather on the road and it was raining and I put my coat around him. So the man told him that there was a pot of Gold under that Gollain.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lizzie Healy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Katie Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 22
- Address
- Knockanes, Co. Kerry
