School: Mount Plunkett (roll number 8096)
- Location:
- Mountplunkett, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Bheirn
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- One day a cobbler went into a shop to buy wax. On coming home he crossed a field and he saw a hare. He threw the wax at the hare but the hair got away. At a gap he saw two hares stuck together with the wax.
- Informant
- Charles Fuery
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Mountplunkett, Co. Roscommon
- Paddy the Irish man was walking down the road one day and he lost a halfpenny and he could not find the halfpenny as it was dark. So he went into a shop to buy a penny candle to look for the half penny.
- Informant
- Charles Fuery
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Mountplunkett, Co. Roscommon
- Paddy the Irishman and Paddy the Englishman went into a hotel one day. When they got the tea the English man said "Now Paddy you be mother and pour out the tea." When they were finished Paddy the Irishman said "Now you be father and pay"
- Informant
- Charles Fuery
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Mountplunkett, Co. Roscommon
