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School: Áth Liag (roll number 15308)

Location:
Athleague, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Máirtín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0264, Page 044

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    In this locality there lived a parson who had very good seed potatoes. One day a Catholic man asked him for seed. The parson said he would not give potatoes belonging to a Protestant to a Catholic. "A" said the man "when I have them boiled the devil will be well gone out of them".
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Rogerson
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Athleague, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Thomas Nolan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gorteencloogh or Corramore, Co. Roscommon