School: Headfort
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Miss J.E. Browne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0999, Page 155
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- (continued from previous page)Ceannuidhe-beg commenced to sing:-
"I am off to heaven in the morning".
Another man heard him and said he would take his place. Ceannuidhe-beg put him in the bag, carried him to the lake and threw him in. Ceannuidhe-beg then took the drowned man's cattle and placed them on a hill over the lake so that their figures were reflected in the water. He then went off in search of Ceannuidhe-Mor and showed him the cattle saying.
"I got all those down in the lake," he said "and there are as many more below.
Ceannuidhe-mor then jumped into the lake and was drowned.
- Collector
- Peter Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigabruse, Co. Cavan
