School: Caherline, Pallasgreen (roll number 15226)
- Location:
- Caherline, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: P. Ó Donnchadha
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- A funny story
An old man named Mr O Dwyer told me last night, that he was sent out minding a garden of wheat.
The wheat used to be flung around the garden in the morning when they would get up. One night the man went out to the wheat garden and sat by the side of the ditch to watch who was flinging the wheat around the garden.
He waited there and it was not long until a boy came with a red cap on his head, he had an armful of hurleys and he left them on the middle of the field. The man at the side of the ditch ran out out and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyhobin, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mr W. Dwyer
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathjordan, Co. Limerick
