School: Tón Ruadh (roll number 12809)
- Location:
- Tonroe, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Giobaláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0115, Page 129
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- (continued from previous page)sheep. When the poor man heard him he thought it was the sheep he had lost the night before. He tied the two sheep to a bush and he went looking for the other one. The boy went through the wood bleating like the sheep until he had gone a good length away from the sheep. The man kept looking for the boy whom he thought was the sheep. When the man was away. the boy went back and stole the two sheep. He won the bet and he got thirty pounds. The boy got married and he lived happily for the rest of his life.
- Collector
- Páid Ó hEoghain
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Barroe, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Hugh Owens
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 96
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Barroe, Co. Mayo
