School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)
- Location:
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407D, Page 16_084
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“There was once a smith who lived away from the people by him-self.”
(continued from previous page)arrived. The smith asked the man to show him the rat burrows in the ditches "the man did" and the smith blocked them from the inside with stones. Then the smith went on the road and said a few words the man did not understand him but when he had said them the rats came in great numbers from the ditches to the road. Then the smith pointed his finger the next house. The rats went quickly to it. There was one rat that was blind another rat took the blind rat in his mouth and carried him away. The smith said if they could not get enough to eat, in the new house, that they could come back again and could not be hunted. There was not a rat seen in that house since
- Collector
- Pádraig Bairéad
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry