School: Cluain Mór (1), Baile an Droichid
- Location:
- Clonmore, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Laochdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 185
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- (continued from previous page)went the day before it went ten times faster this day and poor Jack was so fatigued and tired that the ball was there a long time before him.
He went to the door a little grey headed man came to the door and said "You're welcome King's son from Ireland" "How the devil do you all know me" says Jack and gave him his supper and a good bed. When he got up in the morning the little man asked him how did he sleep. As bad as I slept the night before I slept ten times worse last night. "Why wouldn't you my poor fellow" says the little man, "and my name Snow".
He asked the little man could he give him any account of Mr. No Man's Daughter from the Black Cloud. "Yes" he says "Go up there above to an avenue and will see children going up and down it, going with their father's dinners. Get the raggediest of them and take off his clothes and put them on you and put your good ones on him.
He went up to the end of the avenue where the king lived and the king met him and hired him. The first job he put(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Charles Keogh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Occupation
- Farm-labourer
- Address
- Killalongford, Co. Carlow
