School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0861, Page 014
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“One day two boys went into a wood to gather nuts. When they were coming home it grew dark.”
One day two boys went into a wood to gather nuts. When they were coming home it grew dark. They went into a grave-yard to divide the nuts between them and they were saying one for you and one for me.
A nervous man was passing the grave-yard and when he heard the boys saying "one for me and one for you" he ran off to the village and told the people that God and the devil was in the grave-yard dividing the bodies between them and they were saying "one for me and one for you". All the people came down to the grave-yard and who did they find only the two boys.
- Collector
- Kathleen Cass
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Woodquarter, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Cass
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Castlekelly, Co. Kilkenny