School: An Bháinseach (C.) (roll number 11965)
- Location:
- An Bháinseach, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Mheiscill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0575, Page 122
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- (continued from previous page)the cellar for a measure of wine. When he went
down all the barrels were empty. The Earl told
his servant to bring him a measure of milk from
the dairy but when he went for the milk
all the vessels very empty. He then told him to
go to the river and bring him water. The Earl was
then is a furious rage. His servant went to the
river but it had run dry, and had removed to the
back of the Abbey. The five eyes of the bridge
where the river ran can be seen to-day as your going
into the Abbey.
The poor man died of hunger, but as noble as
the Earl was he died with the drought.[Round is the world, it goes upon wheels,
And death is a thing that everyone feels,
But if death was a thing that money could buy
(That) The rich man would live and the poor man
would die.
But God in His mercy hath ordained it so.
That the rich and the poor in their turn
must go]
- Collector
- Pauline O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John O' Brien
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Mhic Éadaigh, Co. Thiobraid Árann
