School: Calry (roll number 10473)
- Location:
- Calgach, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Róisín Mhig Ualghairg
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“About seventy years ago there lived an old man in a small hut ...”
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for a wedding. When when they arrived they were amazed to see the hut in which he lived and they asked him to explain himself. The Lord of Benbo told them that his "knees" were his table. He had potatoes and salt for dinner every day.
His knees he would not sell for all the money in England and 'salt' was the taste of all meals.
The soldiers that guarded his castle were two goats, and their weapons of defence were their long horns.
- Informant
- Áine Ní Chuileáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loch Chinn Eiltín, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Mrs Cullen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Calraí, Co. Shligigh