School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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- The King had a daughter and who ever would come to him, and that the King would get the chance to say you are a liar, he would get the daughter. Several men came to him with their story. So one man came to him, and the King brought him out to show him his riches. The first thing the King showed him was a garden of cabbage, and the man said that his Mother had a better garden of cabbage, every leaf was as big that they used grow out over the ditch, that seven cars, and seven horses could take shelter(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Johnny Harrington
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardea, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mary Sheehan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardea, Co. Kerry
