School: Ráithín (B.) (roll number 9304)

Location:
Raheen, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Diarmuid Ua Cróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0456, Page 427

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  2. Once a boy came to a place looking for hire, one man hired him for a month. One day they were working in a field there was a big house near by and the servant asked him who lived in it. The man said I lived there one, and the boy asked him why did he leave it, and he said it was haunted. I will sleep there to-night you can but I must give you three clay pipes full of tobacco. He went in and smoked his pipe he heard dancing and he told them stop. He heard them talking and he told them come down and they did. They told him give a crock of gold to a shopkeeper and to keep the other himself. The boy lived there from that
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