School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0463, Page 003
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- Once upon a time a king had twelve sons and no girl. One day he said to the queen if the next child would be a girl he would kill the twelve sons. Their mother got very scared when she heard this. Then he made twelve coffins for them and he told his wife to put them in a locked room and not to tell her sons anything about it and she said she would not. But her young son used be with her all the time. One day he asked her why was she so sad and she told him all about his(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Harrington
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardea, Co. Kerry
