School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0462, Page 275
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- (continued from previous page)fire to the hay-shed. Then the step mother told the daughter not to tell it to any one baptised. So when the father came home, she said, "look what your daughter has done again. He took her away and tied her naked to a tree in a forest. She wished him when he was going that a thorn may stick on him, and that no one can pick it until herself [?]. A gentleman was hunting one day through the forest and he heard her moaning. He went to the pace where he heard moaning and he asked her what brought her here. So she told him the whole(continues on next page)
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