School: Ráithín, Mainistir Laoighse (roll number 16667)
- Location:
- Ráithín Chuileannáin, Co. Laoise
- Teacher: C. Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0832, Page 090
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- (continued from previous page)injure it. The daughter when she had the trout in the well was coming home when she met her father and he asked her why it was she had no water in the bucket and she told him the whole story about the trout. He became very angry at this because the girl did not kill the trout and then he said that he would kill it himself. He procured some lime in a house nearby and started off for the well with it. He threw it into the water thinking in that way he would kill the Sacred trout. However he did not succeed, for the trout in some mysterious way appeared in a well in Cromogue. There was also some lime on its tail or fins so there could be(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elizabeth Carroll
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Colt, Co. Laoise
- Informant
- Mr W. Rohan
- Address
- Colt, Co. Laoise
