School: St Theresa's, Coachford (roll number 14022)

Location:
Clontead More, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Timothy Forde
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0345, Page 174

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0345, Page 174

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: St Theresa's, Coachford
  2. XML Page 174
  3. XML “Bean an Fheirmeora agus an Fear Oibre”

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. Do chomhnuig feirmeoir beag ar thaobh Mhuisire agus bhí a ceathair no chúig cinn de bhuaibh aige. Do choiméadadh sé beirt fhear ag obair do agus mar seo lá bhí se deallramhac ar bháistig. Bhí na fir ag ite a mbricfeast. Pratai is bainne a bhiodh mar biadh ag gac einne san aimsir sin. Bhí an la ag bagairt ar bheith fluic. Bhí eagla ar bean an tighe go n-iompocadh sé amac go h-olc agus nár b’fhéidir dos na feartaibh aon nidh a dhéanamh agus an bricfeast ithte aca. Bhí si ag an ndorus ag feacaint ar mullac Mhuisire agus d’iompuig si ortha go h-átha sac agus dubairt :-
    “Ta ceo ar Mhuisire agus Clárac lom
    an Comarthai s[?]inne is fearr ar Domhan”
    Bhí na pratai ana – ganncúiseach i bfiadhnaise na bfear agus dubairt duine aca :-
    Má tá ceo ar Mhuisire ta an clár-sa lom
    Agus d’iosfaimís tuille aca dá mbeidis ann.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    Irish
    Informant
    Tadg Ó Murcadha
    Gender
    Male