School: Cill Ruadháin (roll number 7088)
- Location:
- Lios Ghearóid, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Labhrás Ó Floinn
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- Collector
- Patrick Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cill Uí Lachnáin, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- James Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- An Ghráinseach Uachtarach, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Story No. 2.
In the townsland of Rapla there is a house called Rapla House. One time there lived a man in that house called Jackson and he was a Major. Every harvest he would hire men and women to thrash his corn. The women would scutch the corn and the men would hit it with flails. Jackson was a poor man and he was not able to pay a foreman so he had to look after the farm himself. One morning he did(continues on next page)