School: An Scairbh (C.)
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Mhic Eoin
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- (continued from previous page)never beaten. In the Drewsboro the races were held in those days. The farmer could not find a jockey to ride his horse and shortly a strange jockey offered to ride him.
He won the race and he stuck his rod in the ground and was seen no more.
No one could pull the rod out of the ground and it grew to be a big tree.
That same evening the sun set as the horse was going home near the village of Cahir. He disappeared into the lake and brought the rider with him.
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