School: Garrán (B.) (roll number 11274)
- Location:
- An Garrán, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Drisceoil
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- Once upon a time there was a man who owned an orchard. Every night two men used come and steal apples out of it. One day the owner told the guards to mind the orchard and that same night the guards went towards the place but before they reached it the boys had the apples taken. They were dividing them in a graveyard nearby, as the boys were going into the graveyard two apples fell at the gate. When the guards came along they heard voices in the graveyard and they stopped to listen. This is what they heard, "Let you take those two and I will take these two and so on until he came to the end and finished up by saying "You can have the two at the gate". When the guards(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joan Collins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cuar an Iolair, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mr P. Collins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Cuar an Iolair, Co. Chorcaí
