School: Dromlogach Mainistir na Féile (roll number 10908)
- Location:
- Dromlegagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eighneachán Ó Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407, Page 562
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“Long ago there lived a very honest man with his wife and young family he was very poor and he found it very hard to get work for the times were very bad.”
(continued from previous page)strange looking man came in the door and asked why were the children crying. The mother started to cry and told him she had not a bite or a sup to give them and that her husband had to go work fasting. Go down to that box and see what is in it. When the woman went down she found the empty box full of everything she wanted and as the man went out the door he said this is the poorest day you shall ever see again and it was.
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“Long ago between fifty and sixty years when there were not many trains...”
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