School: Ballymartle (roll number 7361)

Location:
Ballymartle, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Patrick Kelleher
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  1. There was once a man working in a field beneath Dulieve mountain and he carried his dinner with him and when dinner-time came he sat down to eat his dinner while he was eating his dinner a fairy woman called (dora-dub) came to him and asked him for a piece of meat he said "The meat is little enough for my-self," and while he was saying this she caught a piece of the meat and threw it at his face and from that time forward one half of his face was like a pig's head.
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    There was once a man coming from work and it was late in the night and he met a fairy and he was afraid of the fairy he pulled a penknife from his pocket and put it through the fairy and went his
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rita Donoghue
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Riverstick, Co. Cork
    Informant
    John Delea
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Riverstick, Co. Cork