School: Sgoil Naoimh Conaill, Na Gleanntaí (roll number 15467)

Location:
Glenties, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Cathal Mac Duibhir
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  1. There was a man and a woman living together one time and the woman was very foolish. One day he killed a heifer and he told her to boil some cabbage along with the meat. The woman put a piece of meat on every head of cabbage and dogs came and eat it. When the man came home she told him that the dogs eat it. He told her that if she would do that again he would put her out of the house. The next day he was going out to work he told her to give the grass that was on top of the house to the cows. When he came home he saw her round the house after the
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Padruig Mac Daibhid
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gortnamucklagh, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Rose Mc Hugh
    Gender
    Female