School: Mághthobair (Mohober), Dúrlas Éile (roll number 7048)
- Location:
- Mohober, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mathghamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0562, Page 026
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- (continued from previous page)for her. When he came home the shoes were too small for the woman. When he went to the shop with the shoes he told the shopman that the shoes were hurting the dead woman's toes.6 It happened one time a poor man begging for alms called to a big mansion. The lady of the house brought him out some potatoes and said "these are protestant potatoes "maybe you woud'nt like to take them". He said "give them to me and I will boil the devil out of them".7 One day there was a man working in his own yard with a wheelbarrow. Another man came into the yard to him and he said "That is a fine barrow sir," the other man said, "I made that out of my own head". "Well sir" said the man "the makings of another one is in it".
- 1 One day an old man was walking down the street of Callan. This man was always drunk and one day a priest met him and said to him, "drunk again to-day sir" "so am I Father"(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Doheny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Harleypark, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Doheny
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Harleypark, Co. Tipperary
