School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0462, Page 270
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: Leithead
- XML Page 270
- XML “Mikie the Clerk and the Salt”
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
- Mikie the clerk lived in in an old house near the weavers. One day he went a station to answer mass. Salt was scarce and dear that time. He used to try and bring some salt from the station.
One day at a station there was a big package and Mikie was shaking the salt and he was trying to spare some salt to bring some home. The priest(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Pat Coyne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 26
