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School: Rush Hall, Mountrath (roll number 12231)

Location:
Rush Hall, Co. Laois
Teacher:
P. Ó Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0825, Page 333

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    saw this water as he thought in a water table. The whiskey had run into a water table and the horse drank it and got drunk. After a while the man went out to see the horse and he thought he was dead. So he said to himself I'll have something for myself I'll have the skin. He skinned the horse and went home and went to bed. About the middle of the night the man heard the horse at the door, he got up and began to sew on the skin with twine but hr got short of twine and finished the sewing of it with thin Sally rods and after some years the rods had grown and made a basket on the horse's back. They used the basket for carrying home
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Lalor
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    55
    Occupation
    Dress-maker
    Address
    Coolrain, Co. Laois