School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 355
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- (continued from previous page)getting up ate for breakfast a cow and a calf and half a bull, and drank a churn of butter-milk. He then set out for the wood taking with him the worst horse in the place. As he was going to the wood he met the others coming home. They asked him did he want a hatchet and he said he did not. When he went to the wood he pulled up the trees and put them in the car, but the horse was not able to carry the sticks, so he put the horse up on top of the sticks and he was home before the others. The farmer did not know what to give him to do, so the next day he gave him the two worst horses in the place and told him to plough a wood where there was a serpent. The serpent swallowed the two horses and Edmond pulled up a tree and beat the serpent in under the plough and ploughed the wood. He then drove into the yard with the serpent under the plough. His master got a terrible fright and asked Edmond to put back the serpent in the place from which he came, which he did. His master was one day talking to a neighbour, and he asked him if he could think of any possible means of getting(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O' Dwyer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clashbeg, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Brigid Lanigan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 57
- Occupation
- Domestic worker
- Address
- Affoley, Co. Tipperary
