School: Toomore (roll number 16401)
- Location:
- Toomore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0154, Page 52
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- Once upon a time there was a lord and he had a man guarding the castle. This man would not allow any person to go into the castle or hunt on the land without the lord's permission.
One evening the lord told the guard not to allow any one to hunt on his land but the guard did not obey and he went to hunt himself on the land of the lord. When he was a while hunting he met a man who said the day was for the living and the night was for the dead and then disappeared.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mícheál Mach an Ultaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cashel, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Domhnaill Mac Canna
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Foxford, Co. Mayo
