School: Coiscéim (B.) (roll number 3886)
- Location:
- Kishkeam Lower, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0356, Page 020
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- A man called Domnall gan Eagla went to a house playing one night. When he was coming home he saw small men playing football in a field. The captain saw Domnall gan Eagla and he asked him to play with them. But he gave him advice to mind himself from one of the players who had red hair. Domnall said he would. He got an awful fright when he saw the football because it was a human skull. He got the upper hand of the red player. After the game the captain told him not to sleep two nights in the same house until he would come to the big bridge that is over the Thames. Domhnall did as he was told. He met the Captain again and he gave a five pound note to Domhnall. When he landed in England he went to the big bridge. Domhnall saw a small house near the bridge and he noticed that anyone did not sleep there by night. He enquired about it and he found out that any one that slept there by night was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tim J. Casey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kishkeam Lower, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Casey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Kishkeam Lower, Co. Cork
