School: Eiscreach (roll number 13945)
- Location:
- Eskeragh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0153, Page 187
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- any amount of people can play the priest of the parish. First the captain gives every one a strange name. Then the captain says "the priest of the parish lost his considering cap" "Some say this, and some say that", and then he would say one of the strange names found it.
The person's name he'd say, that one would say "is it me sir", then the captain says "it is", "you are wrong sir", the person would say, and "who then" says the captain, the parson says some other one's name. Then that person says to the one that said his name, "it is me sir", the person that said his name would say it is, and so on.
Then if one didn't know some one's name that one would be furnished some(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas A. Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dooleeg, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Pat Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dooleeg, Co. Mayo
