School: Bullán (roll number 13432)

Location:
Bullaun, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eoghan Ó Muimhneacháin
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    my Spring onions last Tuesday, and the next night I'll be blowed if the slugs weren't dipping the onions in the salt before having a rare old meal".
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. A Story
    Once upon a time there lived a little boy name Micklen, who was only the size of my thumb. One evening his mother sent him for the cows. It made a shower of rain and he sat under a thistle for shade. One of the cows came along and ate Micklen and the thistle. His mother was very uneasy about him, but one day when she was milking the cows she heard Micklen whistling within in the cow, so the cow had to be opened to let him out. A few days later he was walking along the sea-shore when a blast of wind blew him into the sea. A fish came along and ate Micklen. About a week later his mother bought fish and when she opened the fish who lepped out but Micklen.
    Got from: My father Mick age 53 years, Benmore, Bullaun.
    By: Nellie Wade, same address on the 11 July 1938.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Folktales index
    AT0700: Tom Thumb
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie Wade
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ben More, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mick Wade
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    52
    Address
    Ben More, Co. Galway