School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 354
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- (continued from previous page)"Let you do that father, you are handier at those things than I."
- There was a mission in a parish one time and one day when the Priest was walking out the road he saw a drunken man sleeping beside a car. Some of the boys had stolen his ass. The Priest asked him who he was, and he replied: "If I am Darly Cormac I lost an ass and if I am not I found a car.
- Long ago a man named Edmond lived with his mother in a very small place. His mother had no means for him so Edmond went off to seek his fortune. He walked on until he came to a gentleman's place. He asked did they want anybody, saying he would do any kind of work, so the gentleman kept him.In the morning the men were drawing timber from the wood. Edmond, who was late(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O' Dwyer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clashbeg, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Brigid Lanigan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 57
- Occupation
- Domestic worker
- Address
- Affoley, Co. Tipperary
