School: Gleann Gort, Caisleán Nua Thiar (roll number 7329)
- Location:
- Glengort South, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0492, Page 155
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- (continued from previous page)weak as a sap, and he sat down beside the ditch he was so weak because he was fighting all night.
It was just six o'clock when the man sat down beside the ditch and the cocks crew and sprid had to disappear and it was a good thing for the man for if he held fighting for another minute Sprid would kill him and from that night out the man was never out late. Sprid na Bearnan was sent away from Bearnagh and she had to spend seven long years at every task, the first seven years she had to throw a heap of stones from one side of the road to the other , and the second seven years she had to stay under the bark of an oak tree and the last of her years she was sent away for ever and ever to a big big sea and to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Toornafulla, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Patrick Doherty
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Toornafulla, Co. Limerick
