School: Cill Ruadháin (roll number 7088)
- Location:
- Lisgarode, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Labhrás Ó Floinn
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- Collector
- Micheal Grace
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Graigue Upper, Co. Tipperary
- The Three SkullsTwo men were passing a graveyard one day. They saw three heads beside a grave. One of them said to the other "I will have a bet with you that you will not come back tonight and take one of them away.When night came the man went to the graveyard. The other man got there before and hid. When he was taking one of the heads a voice said "leave that head there, that is my father's head", and the voice said again, "leave that head that is my mother's head". Then he reached for the last. "Leave that head there that is my grandfather's head", said the voice again.(continues on next page)