School: Garrdha Dubhlios, Pálás Gréine (roll number 10991)

Location:
Garrydoolis, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Ss. Ó Nuanáin
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0518, Page 068

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0518, Page 068

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: Garrdha Dubhlios, Pálás Gréine
  2. XML Page 068
  3. XML (no title)

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. (no title)

    A long time ago there lived a man and every night when he used to go to bed a big, heavy hand was layed on his breast.

    A long time ago there lived a man and every night when he used to go to bed a big, heavy hand was layed on his breast. One night he made up his mind to take to bed with him a bottle of whiskey and a revolver. He said that if the hand was not taken off his breast while he was taking three mouthfuls of whiskey he would shoot it off. All went well until about twelve o'clock that night when the hand was laid upon him. He took the three mouthfuls of whiskey but the hand did not move. He then took the revolver and pulled the trigger but he only shot three toes off himself.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Martin Comans
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloghaready, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    John Mc Carthy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70