School: Mount Plunkett (roll number 8096)
- Location:
- Mountplunkett, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0265, Page 248
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- (continued from previous page)so he gave her three days grace and on the third day if she was able to guess his name she could keep her child. The girl sent out messengers to collect the funniest names but they were all wrong. One man was on top of a hill and he saw the wee man jumping over the fire on one leg and he saying:-
Today I bake
Tomorrow I brew
The day after I fetch the Queen's baby
Nobody knows how nice it is to be called
Rumsalarey
When he came next day the girl said his name and he was so angry that he stuck his right foot to far in the ground that he fell and catching hold of the left foot split himself in two.
- Informant
- Malachy Kilcline
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Killeenrevagh, Co. Roscommon
