School: Baile na Martra (B.) (roll number 13647)
- Location:
- Baile na Martra, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0396, Page 129
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- One day when Fionn Mac Cool was hunting with the Fianna a lady came up to them. Fionn asked her what was her name and She said she was the wife of a king named Tailc Mach Treóin. She said that he hunted her out of the palace. After a while they saw aman coming with a cat's head and a cat's tail on him. Then she told them that he was Tailch. He started fighting with the Fianna & after he killing a hundred men Oscaar felt sorry for what was killed. Oscar asked to be left go fighting against him. Fionn agreed and Oscar went. They fought for five days & five nights and at the end of the fifth day Oscar killed him.
- When Cuchulan and Ferdia were fighting Cuchulan's attendant saw them and he got his sword. Its name was Gae Bolga. On the sword there were a lot of edges on each side of it so that if it got stuck in any-one(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Billie Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile na Martra, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mr W. Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Accountant
- Address
- Baile na Martra, Co. Chorcaí
