School: Máistir Gaoithe (roll number 4463)
- Location:
- Máistir Gaoithe, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0475, Page 106
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- Long ago there was a man in Portmagee whose name was Tadhg Ruadh. In the Spring time he usually went to Limerick working for big farmers. One day he was employed by a woman to cut a scythe of hay in a lawn which contained six acres. He commenced cutting the hay early in the morning and when he stopped in the evening he had five acres mown.
At the end of the year when he was coming home he went in to a plantation and cut three blackthorn sticks. The owner of the wood came on him and he asked him what did he want the sticks for and Tadhg said he wanted one for himself and one for each of his two brothers. The owner of the wood asked him would he fight him and Tadhg said he would. The man told Tadhg to come to his own house(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Hayes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dúire, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Fogarty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Sallahig, Co. Kerry
