School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137F, Page 17_020
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- There was a man looking for Dean Swift's house and he was searching for a long time for it. One day he met a boy going to town with milk and the man asked him did he know where Dean Swift's house was and the lad said he was Dean Swift's boy.
He tols the man to follow on until he would meet the first boithrín to his right. He told him then to follow up the boithrín until he would meet the first house with one side of it thatched. The man went up the road but he could not get a houe with only one side of it thatched. After searching all day he was going home when he saw the boy working in a field.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Bernard Grady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonskill, Co. Mayo
