School: Crecora, Tobar Pádraig (roll number 9668)
- Location:
- Crecora, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ainnín
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0526, Page 089
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Crecora, Tobar Pádraig
- XML Page 089
- XML “Local Lore”
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
- I knew two wild youths who were habitual night ramblers, being addicts to drinking and gambling. They were passing the gate at 1a.m one night they they saw a tall man standing there. On their approach he turned and walked up the passage leading to the old churchyard. With brazen effrontery they followed him a short distance and shouted at him not to be out stealing geese. They mistook him for another individual who had the suspicion of the local people aroused on account of these larcenies.
They proceeded homewards together for half a mile or so, when one entered his own house. The other had still to travel another mile and crossing the fields he took to an old pathway. At the next fence was an old(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lemonfield, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Seán Ó Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lemonfield, Co. Limerick
