School: Drumatemple (B.) (roll number 7496)
- Location:
- Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Michael Quinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0261, Page 099
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- (continued from previous page)mother out of the clíabh, and put her sitting on a chair. Very soon they got a good dinner. Connor was very happy.
The next day Connor was sent out in the yard doing little jobs. His mother had a fine time inside in a lovely room, all by herself.
Now the king had two wolfhounds that no body ever went into and the king told Connor to go in and to clean out the kennel as it was a bit dirty. Connor took his walking stick and went in. The hounds started to grin, and tried to bite him. He gave them a blow each of the stick and out they ran. When the king saw this, he said to Connor "If you don't get the hounds in they will eat everyone in the country" Connor ran after them and ran them in again.
Now when the king saw that this trick had failed, he thought of another one. Next day Connor was walking round doing nothing until evening. The king was in company with the devil in a flour mill. The king worked the mill in the day and the devil worked it by day.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael O' Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cornamucklagh, Co. Galway
- Collector
- Peter Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonruff, Co. Galway
- Informant
- John O' Hara
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cornamucklagh, Co. Galway
