School: Teamhrán (B.) (roll number 14833)
- Location:
- Teamhrán, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: S. Mac Conmara
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0113, Page 111
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“Once upon a time there lived three brothers. two married and the other lived with his mother...”
(continued from previous page)kill him. They put him into a bag and carried him away to a deep river and they left him down to rest and just then a hare passed on three feet and the two men went after to catch him. While they were gone a man came passed with a drove of cattle. The man in the bag started shouting "I am going to Heaven. I am going to Heaven." The man driving the cattle asked him to change with him. This he did and the man in the bag came out and the man who was driving the cows went in. He tied the string on the bag and went off with the cows. When the two men came back they took the bag and man and threw him in, in the deepest part of the river. Then they came home satisfied that they now had done away with their brother for ever. Next day they went back to their brother's farm and to their great surprise they found him there and his farm full of cattle.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John J. O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Sanúlán, Co. Mhaigh Eo