1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Rosenallis

School: Rosenallis (roll number 5442)

Location:
Rosenallis, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Mrs L. Dagg
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0823, Page 392

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0823, Page 392

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: Rosenallis
  2. XML Page 392
  3. XML “Religious Stories”

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. Religious Stories

    Share Share Post
    There was once a poor scholar going around this locality. He used make up rhymes for any person who would give him a penny. So one day he went to Mr Piggot Capard who was the landlord. and asked him for a penny. Piggot gave him the penny, and the poor scholar went to the back gate and wrote the following rhyme on it.
    Piggots of Capard.
    Broasdailes of Rynn
    Chemists of Camira
    Coots of Ballyfinn.
    The same poor scholar went to a man's door and asked him for a penny.He did not give him the penny, The poor scholar wrote on the door. "It was in this hive the tinkers died.
    They did not deceive me highly
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. narratives (~478)
        1. religious tales (~1,085)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joseph Egan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lackan, Co. Laois
    Informant
    John Kane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Corbally, Co. Laois