School: Munlough
- Location:
- Munlough North, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: D. Brady
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0964, Page 231
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- (continued from previous page)Paddy. "Make me three oatmeal cakes and I will set out to-morrow". So she did as Paddy told her and the next morning he set out. He travelled until he came to a bridge that was being built. There were great big stones in this bridge some of them as big as a house. It is thought that it is a bit of one of them that is still in a field near Ballinamore. It is no ordinary men that are building this bridge says Paddy. He said he would wait and see who was building it. He cut a hazel rod and he killed one hundred and sixty flies with one stroke .Then he went up in a tree an wrote, "this stick is able to kill thirteen people of a congregation and one clergyman". When he was a while up in the tree (and wrote) "two giants came along with great big hammers and they began to break the stones. Paddy began to throw down the stones(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Charles Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gowlan, Co. Cavan
