School: Carron / Carthan (roll number 7573)
- Location:
- Carran, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Muirthille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0616B, Page 15_024
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- There was a priest living in Fahy and one day he was preaching to the people and he told them that it was very good to give anything to anyone, that you would get back twice as much. It was Christmas this time. This man was married and he had only one cow. So he believed very much in the priest. So he gave the cow he had to the priest. The priest had a bullock, and he tied the cow and the bullock together that night. So in the morning the man woke and he saw the bullock outside the window, now Mary says he there is one of them landed already, and it is only three days after Christmas. When he awoke(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Colgan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rannagh East, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Joe Mac Gann
- Gender
- Male
