School: Ballyadams (roll number 894)
- Location:
- Ballyadams, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Bruadair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0836, Page 156
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Once upon a time there lived a man and he built himself a side of a hill. First he dug away the hillside and made a flat place for the floor. Next he made the wall and then the windows and the door. He then laid tree trunks across the top of the wall to form a roof and on the roof he put turf sods cut from a meadow close by. When the house was finished he built a shed for a cow, and a sty for his pig. One day the grass grew on the house, and he put the cow up on it to graze it. He put a rope a round the cows horns; and dropped the other end down(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tómás Ó Fionláin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crannagh, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Tomás O Fionlán
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crannagh, Co. Laois
