School: Clinstown (roll number 4193)

Location:
Clintstown, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
S. Ó Dúnlaing
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    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annette Dowling
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Clintstown, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mr John Dowling
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    76
    Address
    Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
  2. 7.
    About fifty years ago, there lived two simpletons, named Tom and Jim Byrne in the locality of Wolfe Tone Street, Kilkenny, where the English had erected a scaffold for executing the Catholics. One day Tom was attending an execution and seemed
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