School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór (roll number 1685)
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0357, Page 242
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“In the west of Kerry two young men lived.”
(continued from previous page)left leg. He said that he would don his surplice and remove him quickly. The boy said he would take him on his back. The boy brought him back to the church. The lad on the tomb saw him approaching. He came quickly to the gate and said as he thought to his brother, "Jackeen is he fat". "Fat or lean here he's for you". The boy "scelted" as fast as he could and the minister after him, forgetting the gout in his left leg and on came the brother with the sheep and they had a good Christmas with the tobacco and the sheep.Another story from Patrick Twomey.When the first train ran in Rathmore eighty-six years ago, (1851) and tobacco was very dear. A foolish(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brendan O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Farrankeal, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Patrick Twomey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Farrankeal, Co. Cork