School: Scairt (B.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4126)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Rinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0375, Page 276
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- Long ago there lived a man who used to make pishogues. On certain months of the year it was good luck he brought on the people he made the pishogues for, instead of good luck.
One day he got a lot of duck eggs and put them on the drills in the garden of a poor person. He thought all the potatoes would rot.
When the harvest came the poor man went to dig his potatoes. Between every two potatoes he found a duck egg and when he broke them they were full of gold.
He knew who had put the eggs in the garden for he often put them in the garden before and did the poor man harm, but this time he got all his own back.
- Collector
- Mary Mac Donald
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Mr Nash
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Ballynoe, Co. Cork
