School: Carra
- Location:
- Carha, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Tonra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 373
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- (continued from previous page)behind the house. The soldiers got him and brought him to the king. The king told him that if he would tell a good story and the first man that would say he was a liar would be killed. Then he started to tell a story. "Myself and my mother were cutting oats one day. There were about a hundred acres in the field. We were not long cutting when we saw a hare. I fired the hoop and caught it in the hare. We had the oats cut in the evening. It was also gone the next day. I heard the men in the moon thrashing. I pulled two ribs out of my mother's head and made a ladder. I went up and threw it all down. The next day I went to the mill to sell the oats. The horse fell and broke his back. I cut a few briars and tied them on his back. Black berries used to grow on his back every year after that. One man said that the old man was a liar and he was killed.
- Collector
- Shelia Durcan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Tom Durcan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Kilbride, Co. Mayo
