School: Béal an Átha Buí (Clochar) (roll number 15872)

Location:
Ballinaboy, Co. Galway
Teacher:
An tSr Tr. Ní Orcáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0005, Page 145

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    of the Fianna. He was a hundred years in Tir-na-n-og but he thought he was only a year there. All his friends when dead by now. Just then he saw a crowd of men trying to lift a stone. He bent down to lift it but the stirrup broke and he fell to the ground. Immediately he was turned into an old man, withered and grey and old. The steed vanished from his sight and he saw it no more.
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
        1. shoes (~1,841)
    Language
    Irish
    Collector
    Máire Ní Mhadaín
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Tomás Ó Madaín
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Ballinaboy, Co. Galway