School: Cill Liath (roll number 8696)
- Location:
- Cill Ia, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Murchadha
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“A great many years ago there lived in the Townland of Dangan a poor labourer who with his wife and large family occupied a small mud cabin.”
(continued from previous page)as they did not want their neighbours to know of their luck. He then bought a few fields and after some years bought a large farm and built a lovely new house and ever since then his descendants continue to prosper and seem to forget, that is. if they ever knew, that the origin of their happiness was just a dream.(no title)
“About sixty years' ago a little more or less, a carpenter was working in a farm-yard at Ballyling, bounding Castle-Richard where the famous castle is.”
About sixty years' ago a little more or less, a carpenter was working in a farm-yard at Ballyling, bounding Castle-Richard where the famous castle is. There was also a grave-yard named "Páirc an Reilge" adjoining which has long since been disused. At six o ' clock in the evening, two men and a boy drove into the yard, with a horse and cart. The mistress of the house ran out, told the carpenter not to leave, she said that one of the men was her brother, he brought a bottle of whiskey and the carpenter was to take a drop. He was(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eileen Kennedy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill Ia, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Richard Gleeson
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fionnuisce, Co. Chorcaí