School: Strang's Mills, Kilmacow
- Location:
- Strangsmill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Richard Rellis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0845, Page 365
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- (continued from previous page)they opened their tills they found the gold had disappeared. Paddy at once rushed off to where he had hidden the crock. He opened it and alas he found it was filled with small slates
Paddy resolved to be revenged on the lurgadans and watched every night by the stone but the lurgadáns disappeared from that district and never were seen there again.
- A man without learning
And wearing fine clothes
Is just like a pig
With a ring in his nose - Informant
- Daniel Loughon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny
- A child said to its father
How did it come
That you are my father
And I am not your sonAnswer = The child was his daughter
