School: Kinnegad (B.) (roll number 14362)
- Location:
- Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0728, Page 203
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- Once upon a time there was a farmer's son who had an old fashioned mother. She at his birth presented him three gifts. The first was that whenever he opened his mouth nobody to whom he spoke could help laughing.
The second was that whenever he sang everyone who heard him was moved two cry. The third whenever he whistled who ever heard him was moved to dance. Then they called him Whistling Willie
- Collector
- Richard Oxley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Michael Coleman
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath
