School: Teampull Dubhglaise (roll number 6968)
- Location:
- Drumbologe, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán C. Ó Dómhnaill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1083, Page 116
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Teampull Dubhglaise
- XML Page 116
- XML “Short Funny Stories”
- XML “Finding of Coins and Other Articles in Bog”
- XML “About the Fairies”
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
- (continued from previous page)one of them was drunk, so he said, "my country has treated me badly but I love her still". His friend answered, "thats all you do love, "her still"
2. A mistress asked her servant did she wash the fish before she cooked it. The girl answered, "whats the use washing a thing that has been in water all its life".
3. There was a postman who used to call at a public house , even if there was no letter. When asked about it he said, "I go in to say there is no letter".
- There is a man in Tullyhullion who on one occasion found a giants spoon in the bog, another time an old jug and an axe, and lately in the ashes he found an old coin. Abut the same time two other local men found old coins.
- Transcription guide » You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Jane Mc Daid
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Daid
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Tullychullion, Co. Donegal
