School: Caladh na Feirsde (roll number 13481/2)
- Location:
- Callanafersy West, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Luain
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- (continued from previous page)up on the butt going in when off with the horse in full gallop. She fell into one of the barrels and the barrel rolled out and she inside in it. She kept rolling down the hallow of the road.
The horse went slowly again when the old woman fell out. - There was a great house in Ballinafercy which is now demolished. There lived an old rich gentleman in it named Myles. He had beautiful trees growing around his house. He wanted no one to touch them.
An old man told this story about himself. When he was a young boy he wanted to cut a hurling stick off a tree there. The instrument he used to cut it was a piece of an old scythe and a stone.(continues on next page)