School: Baile an Londraigh (C.) (roll number 14306)

Location:
Ballylanders, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Eibhlís, Bean Uí Shíoda
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  1. Two men lived in Ballylanders some time ago - one of them had a blind eye and the other had a hump on his back. They met in the village one morning and the blind man said to the humpy man - "Its not now you are going out its early you have your load on your back." "Well" said the humpy man - it must be early when you have only one of your shutters down."
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    John Coleman
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    Over 80
    Address
    Ballylanders, Co. Limerick
  2. II.
    A story heard locally by myself.:-
    An old man John Marnane now dead lived in Kilgarriff about two miles from Ballylanders. He had some dealing with a neighbour over meadows but they fell out and there was no way left but to go to law. He went to a solicitor who advised him to try and settle with the neighbour and to let him know by a certain day so that he would not proceed with the law.
    On the day named John met his opponent at a fair here in the street and they failed to make
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