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School: Baile na Manach (roll number 11488)

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Monkstown, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Labhrás Mac Suibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0390, Page 213

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  1. A Joke of the Famine Days

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    At Castle-Farm Monkstown Co. Cork there is a field called the Coffen-field. Long ago during the great famine people had no money to buy coffens, so they made them themselves out of pieces of wood and buried the corpse in a field which was afterwards called the Coffen-field.
    One day a man was being carried to the Coffen-field; when suddenly he sat up and said "I am not dead".
    "Lie down", said one of the bearers. "The doctor said you were dead and he knows better than you.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Timothy Stuart
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Monkstown, Co. Cork
    Informant
    William Stuart
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Passage West, Co. Cork