School: Scoil na mBráthar, Calainn
- Location:
- Callan, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Br. P. Ó Gairbheith
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- Built a house in a day,
Roofed it, thatched it.
Lit a fire in it, cooked his supper in it,
And slept in it that night. - Collector
- Seán Holden
- Gender
- Male
- A man by the name of Billy Walsh was going home one day through the fields of Callan.
He had a ball of wax in his hand to mend tackling he met a hare in a gap he struck her in the forehead with the wax, it stuck to her forehead, he turned back and met another(continues on next page)
