Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Location
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“My uncle Bill and a neighbouring man were coming home from cuarduigheacht one night.”
My uncle Bill & a neighbouring man were coming home from cuarduigheacht one night. A grand bright night by the some token. When they were passing the wall beyond at Dundrum, the neighbouring man & he was friendly to us, too, looked into the field. "The devil or fiver" says he "well played, Paddy" My uncle Bill was for coming home but the neighbouring man wouldn't budge.
"Would you like to see them" says he "is so all you have to do is to put your foot on my instep", but my uncle Bill was afraid he might see them & wouldn't raise the [?].
MIss Ryan:-
"When I was young an old man used to come around plucking the geese. When he had the geese plucked he used to say
"Cá bhfuil mo hata agus mo bhata agus mo mhala?"
- Whatever that means. Maybe it's Irish!----Co. Limerick Whites - Protestants
" Tipp White - Rom. Catholics
Ipl. in the Earl of Ormond, is dócha