School: Cill Fhínghín (roll number 16222)

Location:
Killeeneen More, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Ceallaigh
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033, Page 0253

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033, Page 0253

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: Cill Fhínghín
  2. XML Page 0253
  3. XML “Scéal Grinn”

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. Once there was a man who was going from house sellin tea and one day came to an olda thatcher who had no money. The thatcher look the tea and he said he would give him the money the next time. When he came the next time he had got no money and he told him to wait until the next time but when he went he wrote a line in the door. I am an old man a thatcher buy trade, I can work the hook the scythe and the spad, I have got a few samphles of the worst of your tea, and for that every season I am not going to pay, I have written these few lines in the front of my door and if I am not with in, be sure never come again.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
      2. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Martin Connolly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rinn, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Patrick Connolly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Rinn, Co. Galway