School: Tobar na Brón, Piltown (roll number 1468)
- Location:
- Tobernabrone, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bríd Paor
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At one time there lived in the County Kerry three small farmers named Hutton Dutton and Daniel O Leary.
Hutton and Dutton were two rogues and Daniel was an honest man.
Each of the three had a bullock and they used to join ploughing with the bullocks.
Daniel got to be a little prosperous while the other two were getting poor.
So they made up a plot between them to kill Daniels bullock to check his prosperity a bit so one night they killed the bullock so when Daniel got him dead he knew who done the deed so he skinned his bullock and brought his skin to the nearest town as he approached the town he caught a young magpie on the road he put her on his shoulder and the first public house he met he went in and asked the bar tender for a half a whisky when the bar tender was(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Phil Maher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballygown, Co. Kilkenny
