School: Carnaross, Kells (roll number 3852)
- Location:
- Carnaross, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)he put the little man on a range and burned him and he asked him where was the gold. Then the little man told where the gold was and the gold was got. The little man said that the gold was under a gooseberry bush. This man had a brother and they dug up from under the gooseberry bush.
They dug down until they came to a flag it was written on the flag dig down deeper and you will get another pot. But the men did not know how to read. They got one pot and they still dug down and they got the second pot they put the flag round the fire. Those two men highered a boy and the boy used to be laughing at what was written on the flag. The men remarked the boy laughing and they asked him what he laughed at. The boy said can you not read. The men asked him to read it for them and the boy read(continues on next page)
