School: Cúige na Mainseár
- Location:
- Quignamanger, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Antoine Mac Amhaghladha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0162, Page 171
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“Once upon a time there lived a very wicked woman who did not like one of her twin sons just when he was born.”
(continued from previous page)The question was. - Where is the middle of the world? "Poor Muicin went home greatly frightened. Dermot noticed his foster father's troubled face and asked the cause. Muicin told him the cause and said that the question was "Where is the middle of the world"?
"Ah said Dermot that is not so difficult after all". Tell him if he measures the world from end to end he will find the middle at his feet. So poor Muicin had the answer ready in the morning and got off free for that time.
That evening Donnell met him again and said that he had another hard question to ask him, and if he had not the correct answer for(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Mc Gowan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Quignalegan, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Gowan
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 89
- Address
- Quignalegan, Co. Mayo