School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 01_117
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- (continued from previous page)as the cake you make, and a rowan berry as big as the roll of butter, a leg of a bird as big as the leg of mutton you bring me.
They had a hound in the house. One day Oisin asked the servant boy if the hound would soon have pups. "I think she will" said the boy. Soon afterwards the hound had three pups.
"Now" said Oisin to the boy, throw the three pups up on the house and we shall keep the one which will not roll down. The boy threw up the 1st pup and he rolled down, the second also rolled down, but the third pup stuck his nails in the thatch and kept his hold. They reared that one.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary A. O' Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patsy Ausboro
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
