School: Cnoc an Chláraigh, Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 14002)

Location:
Knockaclarig, Co. Cork
Teacher:
David Ó Ceallacháin
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  1. Long ago a man named Shaun Darb was walking along the bank of a river armed with a shot gun. As he looked into the river he saw a 50 lb salmon lying near the bank.
    As his ammunition was enchanted he could not shoot the fine salmon. Seeing a tree covered with haws near by the idea was born in his brain to fill a cartridge with haws.
    He loaded the gun with the cartridge of haws and fired point blank at the salmon. The salmon jumped twenty feet in the air and splashed so much water on Shaun Darb that he was wet from head to foot. He saw no trace or tidings of the big salmon although he searched seven miles up and down the river. Two years afterwards Shaun Darb was walking near the place where he fired the haws at the big salmon and he saw a white thorn tree sticking out of the water and moving slowly upstream. As the tree
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maurice O Connor
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    John J. Curtin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Glenacarney, Co. Cork