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School: Gort na mBó (roll number 14418)

Location:
Bofield, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Laoghaire
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    In Carracastle where John Barrett is now a man called Gilmartin was living in it one time. Long ago it was a custom to have the fowl in the house. Where the hens are fed it is sometimes likely that a rat will ramble round too.
    In this house there was no cat and there was one bold rat which had the house to himself. Every time when the hends were eating the rat came out to have his share.
    At last the man went to Culán in Attymass to get a cat. The man called int he hens but the old cat headed the big
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Flannelly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bofield, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mr O' Leary
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bofield, Co. Mayo