Volume: CBÉ 0106
- Date
- 1935
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- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0106, Page 002
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“There was once a man living in the parish of Adamstown.”
There was once a man living in the parish of Adamstown. He was married and had one child. When this child was about ten months old, the father began to notice that it was very witty and had some very old sayings and nobody was ever able to make him cry. The father, Tom Murphy was his name, began to think that his child was “no right thing” and began greatly to fear that that it had something to do with the “good people”
One day while Tom Murphy was ploughing he broke some part of it. He went to a lot of forges for miles around but none of the smiths were able to weld it. One morning he got up and told his wife that he would have to buy a new(continues on next page)