School: Kilbonane, Lios an Phúca (Beaufort) (roll number 5482)
- Location:
- Kilbonane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Clúmháin
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- (continued from previous page)had been by the side of the pit had fallen in. He knew that it would take him a week to shovel it out again. He thought of a plan. He took off his coat and placed it by the side of the sand-put. He hid the shovel and then went in hide himself among some bushes. When the farmer called him to his dinner he got no answer. The farmer came to the sand-pit and thought the sand had fallen on the man, so he called for help. All the neighbours got shovels and they shovelled the sand out of the pit. When they had it all shovelled out the servant man came from his hide. He thanked them for having done his work for him.
- One day a shoemaker went to town to buy wax. He came home from town through fields. In one field he saw a hare. He had nothing to throw at the hare but a ball of wax. There was a ten shilling stuck to the wax. The shoemaker threw the wax at the hair. The wax stuck to the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Roberts
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymalis, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Frank Roberts
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymalis, Co. Kerry