School: Carrowreagh (roll number 15220)

Location:
Carrowreagh, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Elizabeth Benson
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0185, Page 0126

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0185, Page 0126

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: Carrowreagh
  2. XML Page 0126
  3. XML “Jack Taffe”
  4. XML “Jack Taffe”

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. (continued from previous page)
    the potatoes. When he came he told Jack he had no breakfast. Don't mind said Jack you'll get it.
    He put him into the house where the potatoes were and when Jack came out he locked the door on the man and left him in the house for two days. He came the second day and let him out. "We'll have you the potatoes filled" said Jack. "Oh your honour" said the man. I did all I could the first day but I was not able to work the second day with the hunger? "Well your majesty! my man" said Jack hadn't you plenty of the potatoes". "Yes but they were raw" said the man. Well said Jack you expected your neighbour to eat them raw too". That was the way he was the way he was paid for telling.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.