School: Máistir Gaoithe (roll number 4463)
- Location:
- Máistir Gaoithe, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0475, Page 111
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- (continued from previous page)off his low, trusts and parries till at length exausted from the combat he invited his opponent into his parlour and ordered a dinner followed by a couple of stiff bumpers of whiskey. He strayed at Glenbeigh that night. The following day as he was passing by a farm near Carhan where a number of colts were graging he saw two men in a field noisy disputing the ownership of one of the animals.They had not seen them for some time and as they were both the same size and colour without even a spot to distinguish them. It was difficult to know one from the othe. Tadg offered the dispute by weighing the animals by lifting them boddily off the ground one after another. As there was a difference of six weeks in the ages of the colts he pointed out the eldest should be the heavies of the pair. To their great astonishment he decided the dispute(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Whyte
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Garrannafulla, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Clifford
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Garrannafulla, Co. Kerry
