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School: Graigue, Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4124)

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Graigue, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Lionacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0375, Page 135

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  1. Poor Scholars

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    Long ago there was a poor scholar in this district. One morning he went into a farmer's house for his breakfast. On the table was a large bowl with the following words written on it, "There is more at the other side." The people of the house not knowing how to read didn't know what was written on the bowl. The scholar then asked the farmer where he got the bowl he said he found it full of gold at the back of the hawthorn in the garden. The poor scholar went out into the garden and dug at the other side of the tree and found another crock of gold.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Anna Caplice
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Graigue, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mr John Caplice
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    52
    Address
    Graigue, Co. Cork

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    “When a teacher named Mr Hegarty was teaching the people in this district a poor scholar came to get education.”

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