School: Slane (C.) (roll number 4852)
- Location:
- Baile Shláine, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Josephine Cooney
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- (continued from previous page)began to spur him on and to his surprise when the 'Puck' came to the river he threw him in. He went home with wet clothes the worse of his experience.
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- Collector
- Ita O' Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Thurstianstown, Co. na Mí
- Informant
- M. O' Reilly
- There is a story told of a serpent which lived in the Boyne hundreds of years ago. He was three feet wide and 26 feet deep and one perch long. People captured him by thrusting a sword into him at every chance they got. Everyone who did this had his name written on the sword(continues on next page)
