1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Kilmaine (B.)

School: Kilmaine (B.)

Location:
Kilmaine, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Mac Iagó
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0105, Page 319

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0105, Page 319

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: Kilmaine (B.)
  2. XML Page 319
  3. XML “A 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 Story

    Share Share Post
    A Story 24: 2: '38
    One night two boys went into an apple garden stealing apples. They had two bags with them. As they were going home they went into a graveyard to divide the apples. When they were going in they lost three at the gate.
    As they were counting them they were saying "This one for you and that one for me." Three boys passing by heard them saying "this one for you and that one for me." They thought it was God and the Devil dividing the souls. When the two boys had finished counting the apples they had one apple left. One of the boys said "What about the three outside the gate?" meaning the three lost apples. The three boys who were listening thought it was themselves they meant. They ran off as fast as they could.
    James McDonagh
    Turin, Kilmaine
    Co. Mayo
    Told to me by my mother
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Mc Donagh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Turin, Co. Mayo