School: Cúige na Mainseár
- Location:
- Cúige na Mainséar, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Antoine Mac Amhaghladha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0162, Page 143
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“Once upon a time there was a man and he was two foot and a half high.”
(continued from previous page)what did he want and he said he was looking for a job and that he took seven hundred lives before he came here
The King said "your're the kind of man I want" The King brought the man in and gave him a good dinner.
Then the King said to him "I have men putting up a big building and every day the work they do it is knocked down the next morning. The man said - "I know how I will fix them. Give me three big flags and I will sit on top of the building
The night came and the man sat on top of the building and he brought the three big flags with him. When it got dark the man came(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mairead Hennigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Béal an Átha, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- Michael Hennigan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Béal an Átha, Co. Mhaigh Eo