1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Breac-chluain (B.)

School: Breac-chluain (B.) (roll number 13389)

Location:
Brackloon, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Casaide
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0121, Page 370

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0121, Page 370

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: Breac-chluain (B.)
  2. XML Page 370
  3. XML “A Local Funny 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 Local Funny Story

    Share Share Post
    There was once a man and a woman living together. The woman used to go out begging every day. One day when she went out she left the door open and the wind blew the ashes through the house and while the woman was away the man turned the house completely round and when the woman was coming home in the evening she did not know where the house was. She went asking everyone in the village where the house was and they told her he had turned the house from its original position. When she went in he turned to her and enquired why she left the door open when going. The woman immediately fainted. Then he went to work for a farmer and the farmer got afraid of him and the latter ordered him to sleep in a mill for one night as it was said whoever would sleep
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Lavin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Woods, Co. Mayo