School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0463, Page 192
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- (continued from previous page)to tell him come home and the brother would not come home at all, because they were killing a lot of fish. He asked his brother for a bit of tobacco and them he was giving it to him. He caught the hands of his brother, and pulled him into the boat. and sailed for home. When he came to the quay he met the man riding on the white horse and he asked him for the rope, and he did not give it to him. The storm blew, and all the fisher-men were lost and there were 300 widow women in Kinsale that morning.
- Collector
- Peig Guihan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 10
- Informant
- Mike Guihan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
