School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0463, Page 194
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- (continued from previous page)take a sleep for he didn't take a sleep for seven years, not to leave a blister on the salmon, or that he would have his life. He had a ring, and put it on Fionn's finger. Fionn went to sleep to, for he was tired. When Fionn woke, there was a blister on the salmon. And Fionn pressed it with his thumb, and it burned him to the marrow. He pulled the spit from under the salmon and stuck it in to the Gruagac's good eye, and blinded him. He ran with himself, and the Gruagac ran after him. "Where are you ring?" said the Gruagac. " I am here on Fionn's finger on east near Temple-Noe". He was getting up to Fionn. Fionn caught the ring and through it out in the sea. "Where are you ring?" "I am here on the sea," and the Gruagac followed the ring, and was drowned. Fionn made his way to town and built the first house and it was called neád-fínn. Neidín.
- Collector
- Peig Ní Ghuithín
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 10
- Informant
- Mike Guihan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
