School: Camross, Mountrath
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifernáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0826, Page 433
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“Once upon a time there lived two men in the mountain. ...”
Once upon a time there lived two men in the mountain. One night the two men were sitting at the fire when they heard a knock at the door. In a few minutes in came a little man with a red coat. The tongs was at one side of the fire and the little man reached the tongs from that side to the other side. One man said that he would do for that fellow. He reached for the tongs and struck the little man with it and split his skull. When the men went to bed that night a whole lot of little men came in and started to drag him out of the bed. He could not sleep with the man at last he had to go to America.
- Informant
- Cris Saomar
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloncully, Co. Laois