School: Puttore (roll number 15149)
- Location:
- Pottore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Leanna Ní Ghafraidh (Cafferty)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0223, Page 198
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- (continued from previous page)Once upon a time there was a Lord and he he kept a big farm. He had a hundred men working on it. After some time he dismissed all the men and got and got one hundred women to work on his farm. He put up a notice on the gate that no man was to come inside it. If they did they would be executed.
One day three humpy fiddlers came the way and they saw the notice, and they said they would go up anyway. So they opened the gate and went up. When the Lord saw them he said very angrily. “What took ye up here”. Did ye not see the notice on the gate”?”Well we did said The Humpy Fiddlers but we were never a day at school, and we havn’t a word of learning in our heads” “Well” said the Lord “Ye must be excused” and he gave them some money and let them go. But he told them never to come(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Leonna Ní Gafraid
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Seán Goulden
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Altakeeran, Co. Leitrim
