1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Clonback, Aughnacliffe

School: Clonback, Aughnacliffe (roll number 15038)

Location:
Cloonback, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Seán Mac Ionnraic
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0761, Page 082

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0761, Page 082

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Clonback, Aughnacliffe
  2. XML Page 082
  3. XML “A Funny Story”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. A Funny Story (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    A journey-man weaver was going round the country. He came to a house and stayed their for a long time. One day the man of the house was working at hay when he saw a shower coming. The man went for the weaver to come and help him. The weaver saw that the shower was gone so he was in no hurry to help him. When he reached the man was very vexed so he ran with the fork to stick him. The weaver told him to take his time or if he would not go about his business he would make that little frog put him out of the meadow. The man dared either the weaver or the frog to put him out. The weaver told the frog to put him out so he grew and grew until he was the size of a good dog. Then he gave one or two jumps towards the man as he had to jump the ditch as quick as he could. The weaver told the from to come back. He turned and came back to his usual size so he hopped back up the gripe.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Informant
    James Kiernan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    62
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Smear, Co. Longford