School: Oileán Baoi (Dursey) (roll number 13138)
- Location:
- Dursey Island, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0274, Page 103
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- (continued from previous page)the complaining. He didn't know whether it would be better for him to run back or to keep going ahead. So at last he decided to keep going, and he passed the groaning west, and headed for Tigh-Lice-Finne shaky enough.
When he was west in the village of Tigh-Lice-Finne, near the first house, he thought he heard some more complaining inside in a Cumar west above him. He listened again and moved west a little, and no mistake about it, he could plainly hear the grunting and the complaining and the útamáil inside in the cumar. He went a few steps more and he wasn't very well in with himself by now, and the next thing he heard was the voice saying -
"An tú Párthaláin?"
He knew it straight, who was there. Up he went and there he found Seana-Thadg knocked inside in the Cumar and he not able to get up.
The next day when he was coming over he found a sheep dead near The Church where he heard all the complaining the night before - 'twas how she was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó hÚrdaill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmichael, Co. Cork
