School: Árd Phádraig
- Location:
- Ardpatrick, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pilib Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0509, Page 231
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- Once there was a tailor sitting inside a window threading a needle. A robin flew up on the window sill outside.
The tailor cast the needle and put it in on one eye and out the other. He turned to his mother and told her of the deed he had done.
He also said he would go and ask a king for the job of minding a castle which was being knocked down every night after the day's work. He went away and asked the king for the job which he got.
The first night he went up a high oak tree that was growing over the castle(continues on next page)
- Collector
- M. Moynihan
- Address
- Ardpatrick, Co. Limerick
