Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 2)

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1. Béaloideas ó Dhún Chormaic - Whitewashing in May

   

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   "Whitewash in May, and you drive your friends away" is an ould saying.
   There were people who lived in Blackstone, near Duncormick, wan time and they were wan year whitewashing in May. Some friends came to visit while they were at it.
   "Oh" says they, "whitewash in May and you drive your friends away".
   That day well wan of them went to the asylum. They never whitewashed in Blackstone during the month of May after that.

   

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Location

   Duncormick, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   • Pat Furlong

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   “There was a blacksmith in Duncormick wan time...”

   

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   There was a blacksmith in Duncormick wan time named Parle. He had a journeyman working with him.
   The journeyman used be out very late at night & Parle didn't like it. Their two used to sleep together. Wan night Parle was in the bed when the journeyman came in. He knelt down to say his prayers at the bed; and Parle started dreaming mar sead: "Who'd hit John Murphy?" he says and he drew a wipe at the journeyman and laid him out.

   

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