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 243
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“In the west of Kerry two young men lived.”
(continued from previous page)old man was saving hay in a Kerry meadow near the Bower. When the train was passing he looked at it and said, "God bless us, no wonder tobacco is dear and that fellow smoking.There lived near the lakes of Killarney a small farmer. He had a field of corn adjoining the lower lake. He found it was constantly trespassed on, and one night he said to his wife that he would watch it. He went that night and lay on the fence of the corn-field. He had not lain long there, when he saw three men coming through the corn. They had three hurleys; they asked him if he would play a game with them he said "yes" but not in his own corn-field. One of them asked him if he would play his two comrades and he said, "Alright". He and his man won the first game. The second man and he went to play the two others but they won again. He and the(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