School: Aonach Beag (roll number 14528)
- Location:
- Enagh Beg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Dónall Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0151, Page 424
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- (continued from previous page)one of them I procured the following story:
A man named Caden lived in this old house. He was a herd to Mr. Pratt. He was unable to count beyond twenty, yet he was able to keep an accurate account of the number of sheep in the farm.
One morning he was asked by his master, "How many sheep have we at present?" The herd replied, "Twenty eighteen." Therefore the number of sheep were twenty plus eighteen or thirty-eight.
That is the reason why his house is called "Twenty's".
- Collector
- Dónall Ó Murchadha
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
