School: Barraniskey, Avoca
- Location:
- Barranisky West, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Miss Kavanagh
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- There was once a wealthy farmer in Connacht, and he had plenty of substance and a fine family, and there was nothing putting grief nor trouble on him, and you would say yourself that its he was the comfortable, satisfied man, and that the luck was on him as well as on e'er a man alive. He was that way without mishap or misfortune, for many years, in good health and without sickness or sorrow on himself or his children, until there came a fine day in the harvest, when he was looking at his men making hay in the meadow that was near his own house, and as the day was very hot he drank a drink of buttermilk, and stretched himself back on the fresh cut hay, and as he was tired with the heat of the day and the work he was doing, he soon fell asleep, and he(continues on next page)
