School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór (roll number 1685)
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0357, Page 255
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“Long, long ago there lived a man who had a child that was not baptised and he went for some good man to stand for the child.”
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“A man from Cnoicín a Ghulláin was playing cards in his neighbour's house one night.”
A man from Cnoicín a Ghulláin was playing cards in his neighbours house one night. There were six or eight of them together. This man had a few shillings won when they stopped playing. Then he started for home which was a couple of fields away. He was crossing a stream and he pit his leg into a cow-track and fell on his knees. When he got up he heard all the noise around him and he thought it was the other lads that were after him. After a while he heard laughing and he saw a white figure(continues on next page)