School: An Ghráinseach, Mainistir Fhearmuighe (roll number 12700)
- Location:
- Grange West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Díomsaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0377, Page 252
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- (continued from previous page)in all directions and one pig dead and the other pig rooting the early cabbage. The husband was sitting by the fire crying. Peggie was not long restoring the place to its proper condition. She went for a neighbour to cut up the pig to salt it and to put it in the barrel. Peggie came to the conclusion that peace was cheap at the price.
- Once upon a time there lived a man by the name of Jack O' the Lantern or Jacky the Lantern. Jacky was a shoemaker and he lived alone in an old thatched house making shoes and boots. Everything he had was enchanted, so that if you sat on anything in his house you would cling to it. One day the devil came to Jacky to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Cremer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Acres, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr J. Cremer
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Acres, Co. Cork
