School: Cnoc an Doire (B.) (roll number 2418)
- Location:
- Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Seaghdha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 145
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- (continued from previous page)Firies) because he never sold a bit of straight cord."
- One day a woman washed clothes and put them out on a bush to dry. The hedge was by the roadside. An old beggarman was walking along the road and he had a very dirty shirt on him. There was a neat clean shirt on one of the bushes. He walked over to the bush and said "I'll swap you shirts." He took off his old shirt and he hung it on the bush and put on the other shirt. Then he walked away very pleased with himself.
- Collector
- John Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gowlane, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- James Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Long ago Murt Broderick was going to a funeral of a man who lived in Currow. He did not know where the man's house was. When he was approaching the place he met a man and he said "where around here does the dead man live."
- Once there lived a man named Dennis Grady. He was friends with a certain girl but she didn't want to marry him. Then he made a little rhyme like this
Oh! then if she would marry me,(continues on next page)
