School: Na Mínteóga
- Location:
- Meentoges, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Caoimh
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- One fine day last Summer the master tuck us all back to fields behind the school to show us the place where Eoghan Ruadh was born. The stones of the house are gone but the sign of the walls is around. He told us the stones were used when our school was building 66 years ago. It was a very small house he lived in. The master told us a lot of stories about him. His father came here from Kenmare side, and owed a big tract of land around. It is now broken up and given to 5 or 6 farmers.
They say here that if you are starting out on a journey and if you meet a foxy woman the first on the road you should turn home, that you would not have any luck that day.
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“When a woman is dead here around and her coffin is taken out...”
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