School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137F, Page 07_024
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- (continued from previous page)there was no scarcity of meat for her. Farmers were terribly annoyed by the loss of their lambs every time they went to see their flocks. On one occasion a certain man was approaching that lake, and he got the eagle flying off with a lamb. He frightened her and she let the lamb fall into the lake.
There was a man named Garvan living in Gabhlan and he found out it was the eagle that was taking his lambs too. As he was a very courageous man he said he would rob the eagle's nest. But he knew that if the eagle was in the nest she would follow and leave him useless. He chanced it and went to lake Gleann na bh Tuadh. He climbed up the cliff over the lake(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen King
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lanmore, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Kerrigan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Knappagh Beg, Co. Mayo
