School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Lighin
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There was a man who had a boat in Cape Clear Island. This boat was more than half a ton in weight and was for fishing. The man had one son named Conchubhar Mac Eireamháin, and he used to send his son to see the boat very often, and the son got tired and one time brought the boat on his back up to the door of the house, and left it there.
There is a bridge in Ballydehob, and it is forty feet high over a river. There is a Quay near this bridge and a boat had come in full of sand. The men were waiting for the tide to get higher. They came up to the bridge and one man said to the other, "I will race(continues on next page)
