School: Listowel (B.) (roll number 1797)
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0405, Page 419
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- Knockanure both mane and poor,
A church without a steeple,
Where dirty boors look over half-doors
To laugh at dacent people.
- Informant
- Paddy Drury
- Gender
- Male
- Bill Fitzgerald, Gleannaphouca, Listowel (now dead) lost a cow. He sent out the town-crier with the foll. anouncement.
"Lost, stolen or strayed from the town pits,
An iron cow with wooden tits,
Whoever finds her and brings her to Fitz.,
Will get a mouthful of threepenny bits". - Informant
- Bill Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- (3) Said by boys playing.
"Mee-acka-óbó-very-good-so-so-meelock-merlock-meelock-shee
Mee-fati-onkoh-come-along-with-me-take-an-alla-boojoo-poor-China".(4) Abbeyfale for flour and male Newcastle west for horses,
Ballygologue for thieves and rogues and many ways for asses.(5) Oh my, oh my, what a handsome corpse I'll make when I die.(6) Tom Bawn Longadown, ate mate on Friday.
(7) "Up Listowel, Up Tralee, Up Mary Street and down Boherbee!"(continues on next page)
