School: Oileán Baoi (Dursey) (roll number 13138)
- Location:
- Dursey Island, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0274, Page 093
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- (continued from previous page)drink besides. The whole crowd were drunk in the evening.
The next morning a tug came down from Cork and it towed her away back home to France.
Quinlan Murphy brought a bottle of the brandy home and he gave a drop of it to his sister. He told her to go drawing dung up to a field near the school on horse-back. She went off and brought up the first load, and knocked it above, and came home for the second. Off she went with it, and after a little while down she comes to the door with the load again – never thought of knocking it: the brandy was talking.
- About a hundred years ago there was a boat coming towards Dursey with a cargo of bács and Dales. She was a sailing boat like all the boats of the time. A heavy fog came down and the Captain(continues on next page)
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