School: Leithead
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)hands. The following year she wanted a little money and she asked him for it. He said "you gave me no money." She then asked him, did he remember the twenty pounds she gave him a year ago. "Is that the money that I gave you the grand dinner for, and surely that was payment enough for it," said he. The end of it was the money was kept by him and she went home without it.My father told me this story.
- How the name Súileabháin was first made.
One very stormy night a long time ago, a ship was wrecked on one of the Irish coasts. All the crew were lost except one, a giant, who had one eye in the middle of his forehead. No one knew his name, so in the end the called him, súil abháin. He got married, and he had one son who was named Súileabháin, and the name came down along, until the time of the English, when it was changed to Sullivan. But that name is still common among the Irish.My mother told me this story. - Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Laoghaire
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