School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0463, Page 107
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- He lived in Drombohilly. He was a poet and a carpenter by trade. He was a very clever man but was very poor. it was he who roofed Lauragh church. one day he got a letter from the Parish Priest of Adrigole to go over there to roof a church that was being built there. He left for there on a Sunday evening.
He crossed the mountains east to Bunawn. Friends of his lived there. He left Bunawn the following morning and crossed the Bunawn mountains to go to Adrigole. On his way a shower came and he went into a schoolhouse for shelter. The school master was inside and when he saw Murty he said, "Isn't it far away the Kerry ravens come to fly for shelter". Murty answered him back and said. "They come to wet their beaks in the shorn sheep of the MaCarty Caoraig". Because the school teacher's name was Macarty. They used call his father the MaCarty caoraig.
- Collector
- Julia Harrington
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Tom Harrington
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
