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School: Templeorum, Piltown (roll number 6289)

Location:
Templeorum, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
P. Hickey
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    There was a "wake" in a house one time. A number of men were at this wake. They were talking about ghosts. A question was asked who would go into a grave-yard. One man said that he would go anywhere in the night-time. They have him a fork and told him to stick the fork in a certain place in the grave-yard. He did so but he stuck the fork in the tail of his coat. When he was leaving he found he was
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sean Carroll
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Brenar, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    John Carroll
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Brenar, Co. Kilkenny